Charles Carreon Keeps Digging: Promises To Subpoena Twitter & Ars Technica To Track Down Parody Account
from the stop-digging dept
It would appear that lawyer Charles Carreon is not taking the advice of Matthew Inman to take some time off and calm down. He's still going at it. His latest move is a claimed plan to subpoena both Twitter and Ars Technica to find out who created a fake Charles Carreon Twitter account which parodied Carreon's... um... over the top approach to dealing with people making fun of him online. Twitter will get the subpoena, of course, because that's where the account was. Ars' subpoena is because someone signed up for an account on the site claiming to be the guy who ran the fake twitter account. Ars' Nate Anderson contacted that guy by email who said (1) he lives in Sweden, so good luck, Charles and (2) that he stopped parodying Carreon because Carreon's actual statements were so outrageous they didn't need any parody:"It became clear to me at one point that I could not keep up with Charles," Modelista wrote. "His comments to the press were more damaging to his reputation than any Twitter parody account could ever be. You cannot mock someone who has such a low regard for his own reputation. Before the @Charles_Carreon account was suspended, I was simply linking to his interviews. Satire was not necessary at that point as Charles was providing it."One wonders what Carreon must think of the parody blog that has been set up to mock him even more mercilessly at Charles-Carreon.com. That one clearly notes that it's a satire account. In the meantime, plenty of people have pointed out that Charles himself seems to have done many of the kinds of things he's now accusing others of doing. Take, for example, his call to waterboard Ben Bernanke. It's clearly satire (though, not particularly good satire in my opinion), but seems just as over the top as anything that Inman or the anonymous Twitter user did to Carreon. Actually, Carreon's piece seems like much more direct incitement. And, seriously, if Carreon should be worried about anyone doing damage to his reputation, he might want to look at the person commenting up a storm on our site (and elsewhere) claiming to be Charles' wife Tara Carreon. She's been much more nasty and angry than anything that was directed at Charles.
On the legal front, the EFF has signed up to help with Inman's defense. I'm wondering if Carreon is even going to be able to find any lawyers to help him out on his case. Once again, we'd suggest that Carreon take a step back, cool off, and think through the massive mistake he's making. If he continues, the term the Carreon Effect might just catch on for real.
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Isn't he a lawyer? Why would he need any help, he seems to have everything in hand as is.
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There may also be jurisdictional issues that require him to hire local counsel, on the off chance that Mr. Carreon actually succeeds in identifying any of his anonymous critics and they live in a state in which he isn't licensed to practice law.
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"The lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client."
As for finding a lawyer to with rights to practice on the jurisdiction where they live lt's remember this thing has gone international as contained in Mike's post where Modelista lives is Sweden.
I feel incredibly safe is saying that Carreon hasn't been called to the bar i Sweden.
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Generally speaking, it is frowned upon for someone to represent themselves in a court case -- especially if they are a lawyer. They are often less able to objectively view the situation, the likelihood of success, and instead, make it rather personal.
He *can* do so, for the most part, representing himself "pro se," but it's generally seen as a bad idea.
As the old saying goes: "A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client."
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From what I read on there, it seems he'd probably need a team of laywers to help him comply.
Oh, & I'll take this oppertunity to point out that Popehat has now compiled their blog entries w/ a tag:
http://www.popehat.com/tag/oatmeal-v-funnyjunk/
So, you can view it all on one page now.
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In my inexpert, non-medical opinion, I feel that what they both need is supervised care, therapy, and medication. I can't laugh anymore, this is just sad. It's a train wreck in slow motion.
It's like watching an 87-year-old man piss all over himself because he refuses help even though he's so arthritic and useless that he's barely able to move his arms. It isn't funny, it's just sad and uncomfortable to watch.
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I'll get the popcorn!
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So, yes, the Tara Carreon who was posting here was apparently the real one...
THe linguist also belives one of the ACs may have been their daughter.
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Pats you on your pointy little head.. awww your cute ;)
*runs*
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Have no doubt. She's been cross posting both her's and others comments here:
http://www.naderlibrary.com/bulletin_board/viewtopic.php?t=896
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Moderators: None"
You can say that again.
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http://www.oestia.com/
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http://www.oestia.com/"
Clearly she's pissed at Buddha. New post from Tara Carreon:
I really feel for the world right now, and especially young people, but all people, really, because of the psychological warfare that's constantly directed at all of us. People are so very, very vulnerable to peer pressure. They want to be liked; they don't want their societies to diss them; especially they don't want to be targeted by the media for total ruination of their lives. And in order for the psychological warfare to proceed, the cannibals that run our society need sacrificial victims. In this case, it's Funnyjunk and Charles Carreon's family. It's not the first time we've been targeted as sacrificial victims. We were targeted by the entire Buddhist community when I told them to go fuck themselves, for being nihilists, elitists, and authoritarians. Seeing what happens to people who buck the group mind-think, makes people fearful of what could happen to them if they didn't do what they were told. In this way, everyone is made to support the status quo, i.e., the Conservatives.
So I want to tell everyone who is fearful of stepping outside the group mind-think, afraid of being an individual, and thinking for themselves, that it is better to do the right thing than the group thing. What do you need your peers' approval for? So you can get stuck in a group prison with everyone else? So you can despise yourself for being weak and vulnerable? And be prevented from doing your part to keep the world from going to hell? And not step in to lend a hand when someone is being abused?
Better to tell your friends to go to hell, and have some dignity and self-worth, and be free to act as you want, according to your conscience. I get a lot of comfort from thinking about what Ralph Nader has been through over the years. The media tried to rip him a new asshole many a time. They wanted him to crawl into a hole and die. Fascist fuckers! Fuck them!
http://www.naderlibrary.com/bulletin_board/viewtopic.php?t=896&postdays=0&postorder =asc&start=20&sid=044fbb4d061ecfec61f828c753464bf9
Spoken like a true Buddhist.
Buddha cries when reading the American Buddhist words.
http://www.TinyURL.com/7rcm8qo
Cross posting is fun. I learned that from Tara.
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Apparently, a bunch of Yellow Journalists, in the tradition of Henry Ford, decided that the "Internet" should be given to Matt Inman. Philosophical point of order about all this nonsensical talk that "Charles Carreon is the most hated person on the Internet," that the "Internet" is rising up against him, and that you have to be careful not to piss off the "Internet." THERE IS NO LIVING, BREATHING, ACTING, COLLECTIVE- COMMUNIST, FRANKENSTEIN ENTITY CALLED "INTERNET," only people who are responsible for their actions. Matt Inman is a sadist, a cyberbully, a liar, and an Internet terrorist. Here, HE DID THE BAD THING. He acted like Monsanto, who goes around threatening farmers when their seed get into their fields, having been blown there by the wind, shitted there by the animals, dropped there by the insects. HE NEVER SENT EVEN ONE DMCA NOTICE TO FUNNYJUNK, which means that Funnyjunk wasn't responsible to do EVEN ONE LITTLE THING for him and his content. In the law, there's something very important: it's called "NOTICE." You can't prosecute a person without NOTICE. As the ABOL LIbrarian, don't expect me to take down your content without DMCA "NOTICE." And a letter or email doesn't qualify; a DMCA NOTICE has to be in the proper, legal form. Those are the REAL Internet Rules. But Matt Inman, being the bad person he is, decided to put his evil, sadistic, greedy self on the cross, call himself a martyr, and ask all his juvenile, non-thinking, violent followers to give him victim status, then made a page on his site "ripping Funnyjunk a new asshole" -- for what? For having should have known that Inman's pictures had been posted by users somewhere on his site. Mr. Evil Prince Inman couldn't be bothered to give him NOTICE. No, that wouldn't generate the traffic he wanted. He had to do something OUTRAGEOUS, and blame an innocent person, now plural. And prove that there's a sucker born every minute, i.e., all his "Internet" followers.
Meanwhile, Mr. Matt Inman posts his pictures everywhere on the Internet, magically making "THIEVES" everywhere he goes, according to his own sick morality, poor judgment and humongous power trip. He and his mob followers don't care about reason.
And these Yellow Journalists say that's how the "INTERNET" works. That's not how the "INTERNET" works, it's how it doesn't work. These Yellow Journalists want to give the Internet to Loki. This attack against FunnyJunk and Charles Carreon is an attack against law and order. Matt Inman is an Internet anarchist. Fascists always love an anarchist. And the Journalists are part of the conspiracy, egging everyone on with their hate headlines, and advice for everyone to get crazy and ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK! There's something very bad going on here, which greatly benefits the Publishing Industry, and the copyright chicken hawks. And I don't know why we can't get a simple yes or no from ANYONE about whether Matt Robert Inman is related to Bobby Ray Inman. Apparently, every journalist in the world doesn't seem to think that knowing WHO Matt Inman is is important. He's a man without parents, brothers and sisters, or childhood friends. A man without a past, just like Barack Obama. Sure, there's lots of famous people like that in the world! Usually, they are children of Intelligence Agents, or Intelligence Agents themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneCa_yIuzg
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Clearly these people should remain OFF the internet for good, for their own sake. They don't understand A) humour, and B) how the internet works.
Also to Tara and Charles: The 'mother' in the infamous The Oatmeal comic is not Charles' mom, it's FunnyJunks CEO's mom. Get the facts straight, before you go off the deep end!
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All of these statements are factual, including the account name's implication that I'm not Charles Carreon. If Charles Carreon wishes to attempt to sue me in court for making fun of him, I'll be happy to prove all of these things (though the tapes that prove the last point may violate someone's publicity rights...). Charles may find it hard to prove that he hasn't done these things though.
So Charles? If you're reading this, in the parlance of my people: Come at me bro.
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I have an advantage that Carreon does not though as I understand how the internet works.
In the words of another internet illiterate, "So much for the Streisand Effect!"
LOL
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Neg's instructions
You stalk a parody.
You jump on them like you're about to sue.
You've got to keep hammering them for as long as possible, but once your arguments are destroyed, you *leg it*.
The clock stops when you arrive at the most profitable legal settlement. SIMPLE.
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http://botaday.com/node/1017
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The Carreon Effect
[kar-ee-ing-on, -awn" I wonder? Serious question! =^)
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New Idea!
He'll fight off internet trolls on different levels, based off different websites, while trying to earn $20,000 for him and his wife... and maybe FunnyJunk. To win and move on to the next level, you must dig your way out in order to, well, move on. In the end, he'll face off Matt Inman at the final level, a court room, where the final judgment will be lay down and he will earn all of that hard-earned money after successfully "suing" a blog, a donation website, two charities, a micro-blogging site and a tech news site (maybe two if he stumbles upon this site...)
If you have any ideas you like to submit, feel free to add on. I'm waiting for when Carreon sues me for parodying him in a video game.
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The regular ending will just show him getting incinerated by the molten center of the earth because he dug too far.
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Sometimes it seems, at least over the last few years, that "fame" is the only criteria for being on TV or in movies, and "greater fame" the only goal. I mean, when getting a role on a 3rd tier reality show because you were once 2rd runner up in a Bachelorette series is considered a "career in show business", it's clear that fame is the only currency...not talent, not the ability to actually, you know, DO something, but only 'being known'. I mean, born with enough money to do anything she wanted, Paris Hilton could think of no higher goal than to become famous.
It's a weird phenomenon, but perhaps Carreon is convinced that becoming more famous is an unalloyed good.
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Daughter Ana sees him as a star
https://twitter.com/passion_lib/status/214559384783699968
Daughter Maria just seems to like to lash out at anyone who mentions her father or The Oatmeal
https://twitter.com/#!/bybeautydamned
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It matters damn it!!!!
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ALSO I'M A STUPID BITCH
HERE'S SOME BAD POETRY
ROSES ARE RED
VIOLETS ARE BLUE
I LIKE TO SUCK DICK
AND MY HUSBAND DOES TOO
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This is truly amazing! Still 29 days to go and increasing every page refresh. The donations have increased by over $100,000 in the last six hours!
http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein?c=home
Also for anyone who hasn't read it yet, Ars interviewed him:
The Internet's Most Hated Man
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/the-persecution-of-charles-carreon/
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Maybe he should start a club with "The Enemy of the Internet."
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This is truly amazing! Still 29 days to go and increasing every page refresh. The donations have increased by over $100,000 in the last six hours!"
http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein?c=home
Damn. No senior citizen should be treated that way by children. Good to see there's still some Good Samaritans left in this world.
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The Carreon Effect: The act of doubling, then quadrupling down on an untenable position, then going all in.
I can't wait until he is trying to subpoena everyone on the internet who said anything bad about him. Do let me know when the subpoena arrives Mike.
Carreon and his entire clan have demonstrated what one might call extreme lack of impulse control. They have posted amazing "facts" unsupported by evidence and demand by sheer force of will that you accept them as true.
Someone get him to the courtroom in CA already, a 5150 might be in order.
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Dig dig dig
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Many people feel strongly on the subject and each individual is reacting in a manner according to their personality.
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That is what she would probably say if she read your comment (and I'm basing that on some of the previous rantings she made, including one where she called me a retard and an idiot for saying and I quote, "your husband is suing two charities for no reason whatsoever"). Because we all know that people can't possibly think for themselves and that the internet is not actually being run by Google and a consortium of Google-like players. Oh no, it is run by Matt Inman, the man with no background (there's a great rant about that online, basically he's like Obama, and they're both either "Intelligence-Agents or children of Intelligence-Agents"). DUN DUN DUN.
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I'll call my first movie:
Carreon digging!
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Watching Chuck is like watching Charlie Sheen
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