“Bts has to deal w a lot of hate all over the world bc of their race. Rally around their positivity,” wrote a Carlson and BTS fan. They write their own songs on topics about getting through depression, not committing suicide, loving yourself and accepting others. Carlson,” a different tweet said, and a reply to that said, “Well to be fair anything JK does is more interesting than that dude.” “BTS Jungkook’s new tattoo is much interesting than your opinion Mr. Please contact us 72 hours after comeback for further concerns. To many of its fans, K-pop culture is not only about fashion, food and entertainment, but also a community where marginalized groups can come together.Īnother Army member replied with a photo bearing this message: “To whom it may concern, We are currently on a BTS lockdown, and therefore will not be entertaining any distractions nor b- from you. Conservative yakker Glenn Beck hasn't (yet) been rounded up and sent to a secret FEMA prison camp, which has given him time instead to send his lawyers after the owner of the satirical.Opinion Op-Ed: Hollywood, take note: Korean pop culture is here to stay Beck has reached deep inside to find a hitherto hidden well of respect and affection for foreign international organizations, and he has taken his case to the domain name dispute center at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. The site, he says, is defamation, and it violated his trademarked name.īut the anonymous website operator who has been targeted by Beck today stepped up, identified himself, and found a lawyer to file a response (PDF)-and what a response it is. How many legal documents have you seen that throw circumspection to the four winds and tell a WIPO arbiter that "only an abject imbecile could believe that the domain name would have any connection to the Complainant." And that's before the "HOMOSEXUAL BLOOD ELF" even makes an appearance. turns out to be run by one Isaac Eiland-Hall.
Eiland-Hall had discovered a Fark thread in which commenters picked up on a Gilbert Gottfried routine about Bob Saget raping and murdering a teenaged girl (it's, er, a bit funnier in context than it sounds ). My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war just a. How better to give Beck a taste of his own medicine than by wondering publicly why he has never addressed the rumor that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990? No one's saying that Beck really did it but if he has nothing to hide, why won't he deny the tale? But that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way." They adapted it for Beck to highlight what they perceived as his habit of forcing people to explain away completely baseless charges-as when Beck interviewed Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) and opened with this gem: "And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview because what I feel like saying is, sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. March to the beat of your own drum with these military jokes. The site went up on September 1 and had a huge spike of initial interest-it served more than 120,000 page loads in the first 24 hours.Įiland-Hall thought this was genius ("It just felt right," he told Ars a couple weeks ago) and set up his own website to give the burgeoning meme its own homepage. By September 3, lawyers for Beck's media company, Mercury Radio Arts, tried to have the domain name deleted by the registrar (they failed) and also took their case to WIPO, which mediates domain name disputes. The reply opens by pointing out that domain name disputes aren't designed to "resolve all Internet-related grievances." Beck might be unhappy about the domain name and the site content, but he can't use WIPO to prove defamation. The domain name dispute process is generally used to prevent cybersquatters from sitting on trademarked terms, and it generally applies only when there is both commercial intent and the real possibility of consumer confusion. The satirical site is noncommercial, but is it "confusingly similar" to Glenn Beck's name? Randazza doesn't think so. "We are not here because the domain name could cause confusion. 5 inch Good, but not enough 6 inch About right. 3 inch Never been so unsatisfied in my life. We do not have a declaration from the president of the international association of imbeciles that his members are blankly staring at the Respondent’s website wondering 'where did all the race baiting content go?' We are here because Mr. 1 inch Are you censored kidding 2 inch I can’t even hold it properly. Beck wants Respondent's website shut down.