OSU fan offers $2000 bounty to "sideline" LTT "permanently" [EDIT]
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ED:BISB: Mr. Watson posted to this thread:
I have been receiving a lot of requests for comment on my stupid remarks made last night on my Twitter account. They may be found by clicking the below link. Thank you - I'm sorry.
http://www.espiremarketing.org/im-sorry/
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So he can't edit it?
Always showing off.
Sorry! I was just pointing out how dumb he was that his website has all his info right there for anyone to see. Doesn't make sense for him to threaten someone with harm and leave his email addy and phone number for all to see on the front page of his website.
I do not promote violence or threats of any kind, even to someone from Ohio.
The one that offers services "at a smal (sic) business price"?
Uh, Mods? Probably better to delete his e-mail and website too.
If this entire thing has taught us one thing, it's that people on the internet are insane assholes - including many that read this blog.
But it's pretty much all directly linked from his very, very public twitter account. And LinkedIn account. And Facebook account. And his business website.
Dude made his own bed.
Somewhere, there is a mod at 11 Warriors typing "Welp, Bosch made his own bed."
People type things into the internet they don't genuinely mean.
This bullshit feigned umbrage contest needs to stop.
Outrage over a burning piece of stationary? Yeah, that's feigned umbrage.
This? Yeah, not so much.
You're this upset that a guy posted a hyperbolic threat? You actually are?
And you actually think that people being mean on twitter is going to solve it? And not potentially cause a rash of "Crazy internet people harass Ohio Man because of Tweet" press?
This doesn't involve me. I always just find it amazing when people to really, really dumb (and probably illegal) things in such public ways.
You're not upset. But you want him to be arrested for being an asshole on the internet.
But I still think they should pay the penalty for breaking the law.
Well, this thread has me convinced - the inmates are running the asylum.
If you think I'm defending what Watson did, you haven't read a thing I wrote.
I'm saying that turning more raving animals on him probably isn't the fucking solution, nor is overblown rhetoric about calling the fucking FBI.
I wonder if Brian wants his site to be the traceable roadmap for idiots to harrass this guy?
I want him arrested for breaking the law. The "asshole on the internet" part is merely coincidental.
Dude is causing a 17-year-old kid to fear for his safety. I can't count the number of lines that crosses.
Taking his email or phone number or whatever and harassing him....but you're not worried about crazy internet people taking him up on his offer of pay for battery or worse? I'm pretty sure both are a bad idea, but your lack of faith in how people will act in the former and your faith in how hyperbolic the latter will be taken is quite a dichotomy.
but you're not worried about crazy internet people taking him up on his offer of pay for battery or worse?
I said anything resembling this?
And not any really serious threat; not something that someone would take serious enough to follow up upon, and do...and thus not criminal.
People type things into the internet they don't genuinely mean. This bullshit feigned umbrage contest needs to stop.
You're this upset that a guy posted a hyperbolic threat? You actually are?
But you want him to be arrested for being an asshole on the internet.
So as you said above, you may not have said that is statement was good or right, but you have certainly given the impression you don't think there's anything particularly wrong with it either. I'd think the worry that someone may act on it criminally, as you seem to now be saying was always a concern of yours, would have come across more strongly in those statements.
You I am not responding to, as you're the strawman king. Go waste your time on someone else.
Here's one thing you said:
The entire problem here is that idiots on the internet keep taking heightened umbrage to mere stupidity.
Since that's the "entire problem," presumably you are unconcerned with the prospect that "idiots on the internet" might do something beyond "taking heightened umbrage" -- like, I dunno, taking the action invited by Mr. Watson's "mere stupidity." There's no shortage of "mere stupidity" on the internet -- Lord knows I've contributed my share -- but there's a reason why there are laws against threats of physical violence, even if they are "merely" made on the internet.
My assertion is that there was no legitimate threat of violence. There was an ill-advised, stupid, hyperbolic tweet. The level of umbrage this has caused is, in my opinion, out of proportion.
If people are calling Tillman's home or making threats directly to him, that's a grave problem. A hyperbolic tweeter is not something I deem terribly important.
Why defend the dumbass? Are you related to him?
All Chi was pointing out is how stupid all this shit is. The Michigan fan base face down in the gutter basking about the stupidity of the OSU fan base. Cute.
Seriously people quit stalking teenagers on twitter.
Yes.
I have not defended him. I've said that the reaction to what he did is overblown, not that he didn't do something wrong.
eSpire Marketing is a front for NAMBLA.
... needs to get some better teachers in their Advanced Twitter-omics degree program.
But we really need a big, public prosecution case involving twitter. For some reason people treat it in a way that they not only wouldn't say in person, but wouldn't email or anything else. Criminal things, like this. Someone needs to be made an example of.
One day, there will be a major case, but it's not going to be this. People have been saying dumb stuff from the beginning of time, and it's pretty hard to prove that a person had specific intent to get this kid permanently messed up in just 140 characters. Alas, the problems of the anonymous internet will continue, will stupid people saying stupid things.
I would not be against the NCAA regulating this kind of stuff though. I know the last thing the NCAA needs is more regulation, but if this kind of behavior actually affected the program, you'd get a lot less of it happening. People like this would be Bartmanned into Bolivia.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisonwatson
Same pic. Although he looks to be about 40, his expected BS is in 2012.
Now the world knows about your character, Mr. Watson.
google Harrison Watson they get this thread that has the tweet of Harrison Watson and how mature Harrison Watson is?
Remember Harrison Watson, the internet does not forget.
You mean the HARRISON WATSON who placed a $2000 BOUNTY on the head of a HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER? Or something like that, maybe I'm on the wrong thread.
I just googled "harrison watson bounty high school player" to do my part and get this thing rolling.
HARRISON WATSON HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER BOUNTY.
HARRISON WATSON HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER BOUNTY.
Also Remember the five....
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The internet does not forget? Give the man a break seriously. He was really really really stupid with what he said but seriously?
Can we please not try and ruin a guy's life? Everybody does incredibly stupid things in their life. This is far from the worst thing I've ever heard someone do.
As long as he deleted it and apologized, let him live his life. No need to go and ruin a guy's life.
He didn't delete it and apologize. He deleted it and then played it off as a joke with the implication that the rest of the Internet is too thick to see the humor in it. I didn't see anything resembling "whoops that was a really stupid thing to say, sorry about that."
is this dude a college student. He looks like he could be my dad, and I'm 32.
there is simply no thought ever in the history of man that needed to be published to the entire world without at least more than a second of reflection.
This is even worse than what Buckeye fans did to Alex Anzalone. After Anzalone decommitted, one of the Buckeye fansites included a posting with a link to a professional rating service for doctors and Dr. Anzalone's (father of the recruit) page. The poster encouraged others to write bad reviews, other poster responded (both positively and negatively) to the suggestion, and sure enough, within a few days, a doctor who previously had just a few all positive reviews suddenly had a slew of negative ones, ranging from the vague to the offensive. The negative ratings were eventually pulled. Black Shoe Diaries reported on this:
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2012/5/9/3009187/ohio-state-recruiting-alex-anzalone-penn-state
This rivalry is starting to take on a dark undertone, that is not good for the sport. When people, mostly Buckeye fans... start to associate their lives with a college sport... then perhaps it's time to reexamine their priorities in life.
It's sick when adults feel compelled, to threaten the welfare of a teenager. So you feel he has insulted the College team you root for... for God's sake, deal with it. Trust me, there are worse things in life.
Buckeye fans were talking about ill will, and Karma toward LTT. People that root for OSU, better pray that there is no such thing as karma... because if there is, they are going to get paid back in spades.