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dynodbPremium,VIP
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Minneapolis, MN | Or it could be ploy by the city to make AT&T look bad given their silly pink box stunt.
Or it could be a single vengeful AT&T tech.
Or it could just be a random outage.
If the city doesn't have evidence that AT&T deliberately took down their service, they'll be lucky if they don't get sued for slander. |
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 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | Plausible deniability, I suppose.
As years go buy, I believe less and less in coincidences, though.
Maybe because I've heard the line "I didn't do it" and my personal favorite "NOT MY KID!!!!" when I sat there and saw it happen.
Yes lady, YOUR KID.
Deal with it.
/rant off....
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 major marcoRes Firma Mitescere NescitPremium
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Stepford, CA | reply to dynodb
said by dynodb:If the city doesn't have evidence that AT&T deliberately took down their service, they'll be lucky if they don't get sued for slander. Uh, yeah. Good luck with that. Slander/libel isn't something worth pursuing for dumbass incidents like this one. There has to be some kind of tangible injury. What's the injury here? A buncha dumbasses talking shit.
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dynodbPremium,VIP
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Minneapolis, MN | Thing is, they didn't suggest it might be them, they stated it was them as if it were a point of fact. Had they simply expressed an opinion, different story altogether.
I doubt AT&T would sue over something like that, but I suspect they'd have a case if they did- it typically doesn't take long for a telco to identify a cable cut being the cause of an outage. Sounds like they went to the press with unfounded accusations almost immediately. |
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| said by dynodb:Thing is, they didn't suggest it might be them, they stated it was them as if it were a point of fact. Had they simply expressed an opinion, different story altogether. I doubt AT&T would sue over something like that, but I suspect they'd have a case if they did- it typically doesn't take long for a telco to identify a cable cut being the cause of an outage. Sounds like they went to the press with unfounded accusations almost immediately. Again though, to have a case they'd have to prove the city knew it was not AT&T behind it, not just that they made an unsubstantiated accusation.
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Sued for slander?
I'm sorry, but the town can get in line - me first!
I've been smearing 'em (PacHell/SBC/ATT) in my sig for years.
Of course if they tried to sue me they'd get their heads handed to 'em, as I have the evidence showing the statements therein to be true.
I think it's harder to say truthful good things about the 'new' (should we call it the undead?) AT&T than it is to say truthful bad things.
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