Did Some Web Designer Troll Rick Santorum? 4chan's Moot Pictured On Santorum's Website
from the hilarious dept
This one is just funny. First noticed by folks on Reddit, former Presidential candidate Rick Santorum -- perhaps most well known among internet kids for the Google bombing of his name to associate it with... something unpleasant -- apparently has a picture of Chris Poole, better known as moot, the creator of the web's most popular home for internet trolls, 4chan (and yes, there's much more at 4chan, but... ).Patriot Voices used the startup Nation Builder, a web tool kit for community organizers, as a platform for the site. A representative for Nation Builder told Betabeat that the site was designed by an outside designer at the Pittsburgh-based political consulting and advertising firm Brabender Cox.Betabeat reached out to the organization but hasn't heard back yet.
Dubbed “the premier Republican spin doctors,” Brabender Cox has a longstanding history of working to promote Republican candidates. In addition to doing work for Mr. Santorum, they’ve also created viral videos and advertising content for politicians like Republican Senator Tom Coburn and Republican Mayor of Indiana Greg Ballard.
Oh, and if you're wondering, it seems likely that the use of the work is copyright infringement. It was pulled from Poole's Wikipedia page, and the image is Creative Commons licensed, but part of that license is that attribution is required. There doesn't seem to be any such attribution. Oops.
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not at all, I would totally believe that Rick and Moot are close friends.
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Man-Dog love
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Man-Dog love
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Let me go get the popcorn!
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sweet!
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NNNooooooooooo
I hope they get nailed hard, and then deconstructed over being that stupid.
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I guess only people you like get the benefit of the fair use doubt...
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Anyway, the pic also appears to be licenses under the GNU Documentation License (odd choice, if true), so the CC attribution requirement doesn't necessarily apply.
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GFDL
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One law for us...
Oh tut-tut Mike, this is nothing (waving hand away). It's only the common man that gets sued after all. When the rich or politicians do this, its nothing, not even an infraction. When the average person does it, HOLY FUCKING SHIT the world is going to END if they aren't sued into OBLIVION RIGHT NOW DAMN THOSE THIEVING PIRATE SCUM!!
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*sunglasses*
...Moot.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
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"Adrian Chen reports that Moot told him: “…somebody knows how to use Wikipedia, I guess. I assumed someone created a profile on the site and used my photo as their profile pic. Or maybe it was a staffer/designer for the site. Who knows.”"
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We love you, Mootles
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