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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 237 points 5 days ago (6 children)

On Friday, government lawyers in the lawsuit filed a court record which said they asked the plaintiffs to remove the videos “from the internet due to concerns that the publication of the videos could subject the witnesses and their family members to undue harassment and reputational harm.” The filing then said that Fox specifically “has been subject to harassment and has received a number of death threats since the videos and video clips were publicized and circulated.”

They caused an untold number of actual, real-world deaths through their actions, but we can't let them get harassed for it!

Boo fucking hoo.

[–] RePsyche@lemmy.world 80 points 5 days ago

They’ve created their own ‘reputational harm’ directly thru their actions. They should be shunned fo the rest of their miserable lives.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Depending on the harassment, these assholes should get harassed and definitely have reputational harm. Not really keen on the death threats.

If they aren't going to go to PRISON for what they did, that's the very least that could happen to them. These little dickheads should not get to just skate off through their lives with zero consequences.

[–] g0nz0li0@piefed.social 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They’re ok with harassing others from a position of power, anonymously, and without having to justify themselves. It’s just that everyone else shouldn’t have the opportunity to harass them. Typical bro culture maga bullshit.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

One of these little assfucks stole data in the course of doing their "job", whatever the fuck that job supposedly even was. And that's just one of the crimes we know of. There are likely many, many more.

These fuckers - including fElon - need to go to prison, god damn it. This is probably one of the biggest data breaches in American history.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/doge-employee-stole-social-security-data-and-put-it-on-a-thumb-drive-report-says/

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

I’m keen on the death threats. All Nazis deserve to be dead. It’s an active choice to be a Nazi.

[–] blackbearjesus27@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

Maybe don’t do things to ruin your reputation if you’re worried about your reputation being ruined?

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

We're not legally allowed to fight back in any manner that would be effective.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Acute case of accountability allergy.

[–] JayK117@aussie.zone 9 points 4 days ago

They stopped tracking after a year but these guys have them killing nearly million: https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No respect for the law from their side, why should they expect people to care when the law tries to protect them?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Without double standards they wouldn't have standards at all."
- Someone way smarter and more clever than I

Edit: Markdown formatting woes

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

Exactly. And if the average joe could truly understand that, we'd be way better off than we are now.

It's never been left versus right. It's left versus capitalism who use capital to manipulate the right into hating the left.

[–] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 69 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Torrent containing the videos from the Reddit thread linked in the article:

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Balls aren’t so big all of the sudden, eh?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've always wondered if that is one of those ironic nicknames given to him. Maybe he has a micropeen, and in comparison, his balls look huge.

Or he gave it to himself like that one guy gave himself the nickname "Meat" in Animal House.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

Funny enough, I knew a guy named Meat. Well that’s what we called him for short; his fraternity pledge name was “Meatbag haymaker”. Let me see if I can find a picture of him.

Yeah, this cucklefuck. A guy so dumb that AXP dunked on him constantly.

They both look like mum dresses and combs their hair, and then rubs the food off their face.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

lol. How old is that kid in the thumbnail?

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think that might be BigBalls

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Mother fucker giving the rest of us ballses a bad name

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago
[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

'Now let's see which programs Paul Allen cut.'

[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm trying to remember the circumstances when they gained access to these government department computers.

Now that I see how young and stupid these scumbags look, how in the world were they allowed access? Who let them in? Who looked at these idiots and thought, oh sure, I'll just let them in to mess with our super important federal data. Did they have armed guards with them? I know they didn't charm their way in.

[–] SphereofWreckening@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

DC Police helped them break into the US Institute of Peace back in March, 2025. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a common occurrence that wasn't reported on as much as it should have.