Film Ladd lays out the case:
Twitter has seen fit to do nothing about this, even though this is a clear violation of its Terms of Service. The person who originally posted the erroneous information and got Spike Lee to retweet it, @maccapone, is also still on Twitter.
In case you missed it, here is the relevant Twitter rule:
You may not publish or post other people’s private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission.
Someone should let Twitter know that Spike Lee and Marcus Higgins have been breaking their rules.
The Obama fundraiser and hurricane conspiracy theorist who also directs films and commercials is not commenting on his errant tweet, and is not apologizing to the couple either. Meanwhile, the couple has been forced out of their home and into a hotel. Someone is going to have to pay for that, and for the anguish being caused them because Mr. Lee targeted them with his ill-advised misuse of twitter.
At this point, liberals in general would be well advised to stay off of Twitter. Mis-tweeting cost Rep. Anthony Weiner his seat in Congress, and it got Roland Martin suspended from his anchor job at CNN. Martin has since returned to the anchor desk and twitter, and shown again that tweeting before thinking is a bad idea.
I hope that old couple sues the hell out of Spike for endangering their lives. I know there has got to be a law out there for this…
Are we going to see a cyber-stalking charge against Spike and the others who contributed to this?
http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32458
“Recent federal law has addressed cyberstalking as well. The Violence Against Women Act, passed in 2000, made cyberstalking a part of the federal interstate stalking statute.”
I wish I was a lawyer. I would have so much fun filing a suit against Lee, Twitter (for failing to remove them, thereby supporting this act of intimidation), the original person who tweeted their address. I think part of the payment would be to force them to stand in front of a camera and apologize to the couple (and then hand them a check for a few million dollars).
Then I’d sue the DOJ for bias.
Obviously the couple should sue Messrs. Higgins and Lee as well as Twitter. Additionally, the alleged shooter should. He was the intended target of the tweet.
– Onion writers could have so much fun with Mr. Lee, but they can’t touch this.