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AEfx

AEfx

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So Rian Johnson deleted 20K tweets "just in case"...


...and it appears that the anvil has fallen on Les Moonves, who has been very outspoken at supporting #metoo, along with his wife, Julie Chen (co-host/moderator of "The Talk"). "The Talk" will certainly be interesting tomorrow, since according to her statement she is standing by her man.

[Edit: As this is a Disney site, I also should mention - the most prominent accuser of Moonves is Illeana Douglas - granddaughter of classic movie star Melvyn Douglas - who everyone here would at the least recognize as the publicist from the Rock'N'Rollercoaster pre-show.]
 
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the.dreamfinder

the.dreamfinder

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AEfx said:
So Rian Johnson deleted 20K tweets "just in case"...


...and it appears that the anvil has fallen on Les Moonves, who has been very outspoken at supporting #metoo, along with his wife, Julie Chen (co-host/moderator of "The Talk"). "The Talk" will certainly be interesting tomorrow, since according to her statement she is standing by her man.

[Edit: As this is a Disney site, I also should mention - the most prominent accuser of Moonves is Illeana Douglas - granddaughter of classic movie star Melvyn Douglas - who everyone here would at the least recognize as the publicist from the Rock'N'Rollercoaster pre-show.]
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Why are you conflating a director protecting himself from an online lynch mob of bad faith actors to journalism, which had to endure both professional and additional legal scrutiny, by Ronan Farrow?
 
AEfx

AEfx

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the.dreamfinder said:
Why are you conflating a director protecting himself from an online lynch mob of bad faith actors to journalism, which had to endure both professional and additional legal scrutiny, by Ronan Farrow?
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What do they have in common?

They both are news stories that have happened this weekend that I haven't seen mentioned, and both directly relate to/are developments in, different topics we have been covering in the past few days/weeks. One, the "tweet-gate" scandals/Gunn/etc., and two, #metoo or whatever you want to call it.

I wasn't "conflating" them any way beyond that. I separated them with several lines the way I did in one post instead of double-posting. I actually almost said "news of the weekend..." or whatever, but then I figured that most folks would realize that.

I am sorry if that was not clear, but I do find it ironic that you would jump to that conclusion, as I am the first to state the difference between saying bad words/feelings and actual accusations of physical assault.
 
AEfx

AEfx

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On the actual topic of Rian's deletions...I do think it was a poor move on his part, because he just painted a great big frigging target on his back. To think that they haven't already been archived is kind of naive - so this indeed may be The Streisand Effect in motion.
 
AEfx

AEfx

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the.dreamfinder said:
From one of his friends
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Gee, honestly - his friend isn't helping LOL. "Nothing more to see..." is how that is going to be read by the "other" side. And let's be honest - if anyone did this, people would be suspicious. I personally doubt there is anything there (or it would have come up previously), but that doesn't change the optics and either "side" would use that to their advantage. Just the very fact of we wouldn't even be talking about him and his tweets if he hadn't deleted them.

What I am most confused about is that I don't know how suddenly we have forgotten in 2018 what we knew in 2008, and frankly, by 1998, - that you can't "delete" stuff from the Internet. Especially when you have nearly a million followers, many of whom get notifications, updates on their mobile devices, etc., every time you click "send".
 
Mike S

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AEfx said:
So Rian Johnson deleted 20K tweets "just in case"...


...and it appears that the anvil has fallen on Les Moonves, who has been very outspoken at supporting #metoo, along with his wife, Julie Chen (co-host/moderator of "The Talk"). "The Talk" will certainly be interesting tomorrow, since according to her statement she is standing by her man.

[Edit: As this is a Disney site, I also should mention - the most prominent accuser of Moonves is Illeana Douglas - granddaughter of classic movie star Melvyn Douglas - who everyone here would at the least recognize as the publicist from the Rock'N'Rollercoaster pre-show.]
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Did they happen to be tweets where he acted all high and mighty about TLJ talking down to SW fans? A lot of people that work for LucasFilm might start doing the same unless they want another movie to bomb like Solo, lol.
 
the.dreamfinder

the.dreamfinder

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AEfx said:
Gee, honestly - his friend isn't helping LOL. "Nothing more to see..." is how that is going to be read by the "other" side. And let's be honest - if anyone did this, people would be suspicious. I personally doubt there is anything there (or it would have come up previously), but that doesn't change the optics and either "side" would use that to their advantage. Just the very fact of we wouldn't even be talking about him and his tweets if he hadn't deleted them.

What I am most confused about is that I don't know how suddenly we have forgotten in 2018 what we knew in 2008, and frankly, by 1998, - that you can't "delete" stuff from the Internet. Especially when you have nearly a million followers, many of whom get notifications, updates on their mobile devices, etc., every time you click "send".
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Every tweet up to late 2017 is archived in the Library of Congress.
 
Pixieish

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geekza said:
Is it, though? We have a President who uses Twitter as his primary communication with the world. Social Media posts are now valuable historical documents. In the past, we know much about the lives of historical figures via their letters. Now, it's their online writings and emails.
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True. It's evolved a lot from when I used it.
 
Rodan75

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asianway said:
The movie had great visuals and a lot of plot holes in addition to questionable choices on character development.

Not liking it is apparently unforgivable.
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I think two different parts of that get lumped together.

1. You can dislike and even hate TLJ. I don't think anyone cares about personal preference. I think there are folks who passionately love it as much as some folks passionately hate it. I don't really think that is a bad thing.
2. Folks who dislike/hate it don't get permission to wish real world harm on Rian Johnson, the Story Group or Kennedy. I think those are generally the folks who are labeled or try to come across as victims.

We've seen plenty of TLJ discussions on these boards, that are strong debates that don't devolve into personal attacks. I realize that does happen, but let's not pretend that just disliking the movie automatically makes anyone into a victim.
 
Princess Leia

Princess Leia

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Things I am tired of reading about on this forum (News and Rumors)-

  • Literally anything related to TLJ (good or bad)
  • Disney/Universal Marvel contract (98% of the characters aren’t coming to WDW, please stop bringing it up on the rumors board)
  • “Black Panther fits in Animal Kingdom”- no it doesn’t
It’s getting exhausting. There are plenty of threads on other parts of the forum for the first two to be discussed, third one should just stop being a point of conversation.
 

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