yourmama
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Re: Such Thin-Skinned Crybabies!
I believe by 'pure defamation of character' you meant PARODY.
Which, last I saw, was protected speech. But with the loss of other rights, privacy and miscellaneous freedoms, I may have overlooked that one. |
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nonymous
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| I think he crossed the line of parody. He used the dow chemical name for the site and then posted a letter that looked like it came from Dow Chemical. You would have to read several of the articles to realize this is a parody and not an actual dow chemical website. |
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bear73
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I would agree with you that it was purely a parody IF there had been a statement (not fine print) that it was a parody or other some such activist statement. While I agree with what DOW and VERIO has done is BAD, (and DOW should be held responsible for the actions of their holdings) I don't blame them from trying to protect themselves. YESMEN left themselves vulnerable. As to VERIO, they, I'm sure, are just distancing themselves from any impending fireballs.
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Dave_L_H
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said by yourmama:
I believe by 'pure defamation of character' you meant PARODY.
Which, last I saw, was protected speech. But with the loss of other rights, privacy and miscellaneous freedoms, I may have overlooked that one.
parody implies thats it's funny or all in fun, this was something that was put together for the sole purpose of slandering a company the site clearly states it's from dow and issues statements in dow's name. Now i don't know what happened in india and i'm sure dow like all other big chemical companies has caused lots of problems there are much more effective(like giving some facts would be nice) and legal means of drawing attention to these things this site does more harm to their cause than good. It attracts the wrong attention to what their trying to say |
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micl
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Now i don't know what happened in india and i'm sure dow like all other big chemical companies has caused lots of problems there are much more effective(like giving some facts would be nice) and legal means of drawing attention to these things this site does more harm to their cause than good. It attracts the wrong attention to what their trying to say
Ummm... back in 1984, an accident at the Union Carbide (owned by Dow Chemical) plant in Bhopal, India killed almost 4000 people and injured 3000 when a type of cyanide gas leaked from the plant. This was one of the worst chemical disasters of all time. Funny how it has faded from memory so quickly...
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Dave_L_H
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Vallejo, CA | yea and that site said it was 20000 if i'm mistaken, they were clearly wrong and verio used this as a excuse to drop a problem they have wanted to get rid of for a long time |
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