<story><title>FunnyJunk lawyer to subpoena Twitter, Ars Technica</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/doubling-down-funnyjunk-lawyer-to-subpoena-ars-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>If I am a boxing manager sitting at the corner of the ring to encourage my guy during the fight, I don&apos;t do him a good service by leaping into it and taking wild swings at the opposing fighter, or at the ref, or at any crazy person from the crowd who also happens to want to jump in spoiling for a brawl. The result in such a case is not likely to bode well for either me or my fighter and I stand a good chance of being made to look ridiculous in the process.&lt;p&gt;In a sense, like the manager above, Mr. Carreon has thrown himself personally into a fight that was not his fight but that of his client. He has made it personal and now finds himself suing in spray-gun fashion hoping to hit the nearest target connected with the events, whether the law supports him strongly, feebly, or perhaps not at all - all the while standing forth in a public spotlight that magnifies his every action whether good, bad, or indifferent. There is no winning for him in that situation, whatever the merits of his claims.&lt;p&gt;The most valuable asset of a lawyer is his reputation. I won&apos;t presume to tell Mr. Carreon how best to defend his but, whatever else he does, he needs to be very careful not to exacerbate a situation that already is very difficult for him. Whatever wrong may have been done to him, the solution does not lie in a lawsuit of the type that has been filed here.</text></comment>
<story><title>FunnyJunk lawyer to subpoena Twitter, Ars Technica</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/doubling-down-funnyjunk-lawyer-to-subpoena-ars-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chime</author><text>While I&apos;m on the side of TheOatMeal on this one, I wouldn&apos;t be so quick to defend someone signing up as @Charles_Carreon on Twitter. That person impersonated the lawyer during a very sensitive time and negatively changed public view, even if later Twitter suspended the account. It&apos;s not parody, it&apos;s impersonation.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t create a fake account &apos;pg[invisible-unicode-character]&apos; here and start posting things like &quot;I wish dhouston would just sell Dropbox to Apple already.&quot; That&apos;s not acceptable, regardless of whether the person being impersonated is loved or hated by all.</text></comment>