Posted: 11/3/17 at 5:40am
Anthony Rapp: Kevin Spacey Made A Sexual Advance Toward Me When I Was 14 — Page 9
Posted: 11/3/17 at 8:42am
"Several" House Of Cards employees come forward with their accounts:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-of-cards-kevin-spacey-sexual-harassment_us_59fba382e4b0415a420ab032?section=us_queer-voices&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000054
Gee...Surprise, Surprise...Not!
Kad is right, "it's where the bodies are..."
Updated On: 11/3/17 at 08:42 AM
Posted: 11/3/17 at 9:36am
Steve C. said: ""Several" House Of Cards employees come forward with their accounts:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-of-cards-kevin-spacey-sexual-harassment_us_59fba382e4b0415a420ab032?section=us_queer-voices&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000054
Gee...Surprise, Surprise...Not!
Kad is right, "it's where the bodies are...""
I posted that this was happening based on direct reports from people I know on that crew and BWW removed my post. WTF?!
Posted: 11/3/17 at 11:38am
Posted: 11/3/17 at 12:18pm
theatregoer3 said: "I posted that this was happening based on direct reports from people I know on that crew and BWW removed my post. WTF?!"
You're not a reliable source. You're some random, anonymous Internet voice on a message board. I certainly wouldn't believe you and no one, other than a tabloid, would.
Updated On: 11/3/17 at 12:18 PM
Posted: 11/3/17 at 2:49pm
And the site has a due diligence obligation to not be complicit in what may be indefensible defamation. A poster may very well have good reason to think he or she is repeating what comes from reliable first hand sources. But, obviously the site has no way of confirming that.
Posted: 11/3/17 at 3:16pm
..yet they like to scoop up rumors posted on here as "Rialto chatter."
Posted: 11/3/17 at 4:03pm
Posted: 11/3/17 at 4:24pm
Even the Spider-Man tell all book pointed out that folks on this board flat out lied in noticible ways and this site did nothing. That’s indefensible defamation, no? Their policies haven’t shifted that greatly since then, have they?
I totally get that I’m not a reliable resource - sound argument. Makes absolute sense. But then why are other anonymous posters considered reliable enough to get their rumors put up on the site’s main newsfeed?
Posted: 11/3/17 at 5:01pm
Not all rumors, even false ones, are defamatory in that not all of them are likely to cause the kind of harm to a named person's reputation that rises to an actionable level. I'm not familiar with what kinds of rumors this site culls from posts to adopt for publication as "Rialto chatter"; are any of them of criminal behavior or sexual harassment, or otherwise likely to rise to defamation if they were untrue?
Posted: 11/3/17 at 5:09pm
theatregoer3 said: "Their policies haven’t shifted that greatly since then, have they?"
In terms of posts? They have changed drastically since Muringate, and I've only been lurking since 2015. Implementation is inconsistent, which I get, as it somewhat relies on self-policing to a degree.
Posted: 11/3/17 at 5:12pm
of which it could be argued could cause a loss in profit.
Posted: 11/3/17 at 8:43pm
...and now, we learn production was halted and the writers are rewriting parts of or possibly all of the last season of "HOC" without, what's his name...
Posted: 11/3/17 at 10:54pm
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Posted: 11/4/17 at 4:04am
Posted: 11/4/17 at 8:45am
What was Anthony Rapp doing in Kevin Spacey's bedroom to begin with?
Posted: 11/4/17 at 9:11am
In response to libel/slander suits, they rarely go anywhere. Though, my favorite was when Liberace won a libel suit because somebody claimed he was gay. lol
The elements of libel include:
- Someone made a statement;
- that statement was published (spoken if slander, slander must include somebody else besides the direct party listening to said statement);
- the statement caused you, a person (not a company) injury;
- the statement was false; and
- the statement did not fall into a privileged category.
However, by the time these suits make their way through court, these matters are dealt with out-of-court. I could go more into it, if you all would like that, but it's quite boring (though, my nerdy self, LOVES IT!)
Posted: 11/4/17 at 1:14pm
Sassy Sam? More like Smarty Sam! Great info!
Posted: 11/4/17 at 1:33pm
As someone recently posted, his career is over (and I don't much care, as I have never really been much of a Spacey fan).
On the other hand, while deep down I do believe that he is probably guilty, it bothers me that there is no 'innocent until proven guilty' premise here. This is particularly concerning, when people are coming out of the woodworks everywhere (e.g., George HW Bush, Dustin Hoffman); I am sure that some of these accusations are opportunistic and reminiscent of scenes from The Crucible.
In this new Trump era, go for the jugular and ask questions later.
Posted: 11/4/17 at 2:16pm
Posted: 11/5/17 at 2:09am
I do wonder what the deciding moment was for Rapp when he decided to come out publically with the information after 30 years. It must have been a very difficult decision to make. To be a fly on the wall......
Posted: 11/5/17 at 3:34am
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