http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/13/elmo-sex-accuser-recants-story Comments On: Elmo Sex Accuser Recants Story by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Sandiai]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:59:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Erok]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:32:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by always looking for hypocrisy when there is none]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:23:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:54:16 -0800 The Stranger
If you keep up with news from the UK, the BBC is currently in deep shit over revelations that one of their high-profile DJs/children's show hosts/British eccentrics, Jimmy Savile, was apparently a serial and aggressive pedophile with a taste for pubescent girls (and a secondary taste for boys of a similar age.) Hmmm...

The right wing in the UK (with plenty of support from commercial operators like Rupert Murdoch) has been agitating for decades to have the BBC defunded and/or privatized. Hmmm...

Some of the most right-wing media in the UK have been blaring headlines about other alleged pedophiles in the BBC (most if not all previously closeted gay men who are conveniently dead and can't sue for libel.) Hmmm...

Back in the USA, our right wing has been agitating for decades to defund or privatize public broadcasting (well past the extent that it's been privatized already.) Hmmm...

Kevin Clash (thanks to that documentary) is one of the more high-profile performers on public television. Hmmm...

You know the habit American television has of adapting or copying British TV series and usually fucking the process up royally? I can't help but wonder if we've just seen the same thing in real life.

Hmmm...
Posted by DonServo]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:32:10 -0800 The Stranger
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Posted by Sandiai]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:56:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by wxPDX]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:41:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:10:40 -0800 The Stranger Well in any case, there's certainly a lot of memetic-style damage here.

I wonder if some day the technology would be sophisticated enough to backtrack the chain of aspersions and make each and everyone who contributed on the web liable in some kind of reverse class action lawsuit, where a single person essentially sues a group because of harm.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:25:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ziggity]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:18:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by seandr]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:15:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:11:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:07:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Korinthia Klein]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:03:32 -0800 The Stranger I'd bet the backlash, if any, will come from the mouths of men.
Posted by tacomagirl]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ddmama]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:59:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Chali2Na]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:52:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:34:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by blip]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:27:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:13:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by bmvaughn]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:09:20 -0800 The Stranger
It is like just a hint or allegation of this stuff even when no law has been broken is enough to send people into a frenzy...


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:00:28 -0800 The Stranger Seems much better to me.
Posted by tacomagirl]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:54:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Flipping TMZ The BIG Bird]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:50:36 -0800 The Stranger