So I am persuing Federal Hate Crimes against STO, who do I contact?
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From: Tolver Armstrong
To:
referrals@usccr.gov
Cc:
webmaster@crypticstudios.com
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:02 AM
Subject: Request for Complaint Referral
I am a Federaly Disabled man with Tourettes. And on a gaming message board a user has faked a email from me and continues to degrade me because my disability make me act differently than everybody else. The abuse has gone on long enough to make it to google ...
http://www.google.com/search?q=star+trek+online+revlot&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
And now the whole world knows that I am being ridiculed for being disabled. The forum moderators have rules against this sort of activity, although after several requests to have the thread closed it is still open for people to view and continue to comment on. This is a Hate Crime, as in this person who hates me is being allowed a forum to boast of their hate for me. I can see no alternitive at this point than to fine the owners of the message board and if they continue to violate my rights to press legal hate crime charges against them. Please help me, I am formaly requesting legal reprensation in forming a lawsuit.
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I think someone mentioned the mods or devs are away from the game until the 3rd of January? Not exactly sure of that, but I did read it. Give that what weight you feel it deserves, but it may explain why no one has contacted you.
I doubt this thread will last long.
Oh also, how do you ignore someone on the fourms? Please?
The disabled do not allways act in their own best interests, hence why they are disabled. Any casual observer can see that this has escelated into a hate crime, and I hae never backed down from a discriminator, I have been here before. Cryptic had plenty of time to deal with this, and to NOT have a moderator on duty has led to this abuse, so Cryptic is at fault, hence I will persue the federal government protection of those disabled persons who society can not or will not treat in a decent manner. Whatever mistake I made, the resulting abuse has now led to federal legal action.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3254249&postcount=16
Being defamed/ridiculed on a forum isn't a federal hate crime. You saying you are being defamed/ridiculed on a forum doesn't constitute evidence you are, in fact, being defamed. Assuming anyone takes your complaint seriously, whatever redress you achieve will not result in the end of STO.
Good luck thou. Hope whatever you think should happen happens...I guess.
Good luck with your case. And please, explain how you ignore someone on the forums? Thanks.
EDIT: A fine is a punishment for the civil rights offender NOT a reward for the offended. The fine is in place to unsure that disabled persons are not unfairly abused by society. Cryptic has a legal right to close and delete threads that escelate into civil rights abuses. Legaly Cryptic will be fined, if at all, for allowing one of their users a forum for their anti-disabled person agenda.
and even that is based on the assumption that the email was actually photoshopped and not what was really sent. If the guy posted an actual email that was sent by the OP as the OP originally wrote it, I don't see where anything illegal has taken place.
Making an email sent to you public isn't a crime.
This isn't going anywhere. One huge waste of time. But hey, every forum thread is, essentially, one big waste of time.
Then if that happens, i hope Cryptic close these forums completely. The price you pay for allowing the community to chat seems far to great in comparison to the penalties.
Unless you can prove that Cryptic somehow directly and officially condoned and supported actions and posts of the individual you claim is harrassing you; Cryptic isn't going to receive any Federal fines.
As for the post making it on to Google, you DO realize the Google search engine itself AUTO SEARCHES the internet, and within hours of any ridiculous post, you have a good chance of finding it on Google (and again, Cryptic is in no way responsible for the actions of Google's auto search engine.)
But hey, it's a free country, and you can claim whatever you like. Doon't be surprised though when no Federal U.S. agency takes any action without clear cut irrefutable evidence of collusion on Cryptic's part.
The worst that will happen is that the "discriminator" in question may get banned if and only if such actions they have taken can be construed as a Hate Crime.
Your anger may have led you down a dark road Revolt.
The various terms of agreements that you signed, do several things. One you agree that the courts of Santa Clara, CA. or the Federal court of the State of California, has jurisdiction in matters relateing to cryptic. New York is the state for Atari. This depends on if you live in the US.
California Hate Crime Law.
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/PEN/3/1/11.6/2/s422.6
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If you have anything case wise, all Cryptic will be obligated to do is hand over the information of the person or persons, responsible for this. You really don't think that any of these companies are prepared for these kind of claims?
If the e-mail was fake, cryptic can prove it, the same as if it was legit. There is no federal machine moving against Cryptic with the gleam of money in its eyes.
View the persons profile, under their avatar pic the button on the right is to ignore that poster.
He faked an email, and a relative asked me about it cause she found it on Google. Guess my temperment.
We get the punchline Saph, this all could have been avoided with a simple ignore.
And it still isn't a hate crime.
But don't let facts get in your way.
you ignore them by cramming apples in your ears.
Angry I would think, but you may have let your justified anger lead you to the wrong decision.
If this is a by-product of the other thread on Gene, Christmas and you?
Then giving the nature of the Internet, I'm not surprsed the whole thing went to far and ended up at this point.
Unfortunately, Corps have legalese to protect themselves from such fallout and the only thing to happen may be a banned for the other person and a bad reputation for you.
Iether way I imgaine Dstahl will be sending PM's around after he gets back.
However the world is full of people like that person.
The thread seems to have gone when I looked, which is good.
I hope your time on STO from now on and beyond the New Year is full of wonderful fun and cheer
Happy New Year Revolt :]
Sadly, he hadn't been discriminated against, either because of his Tourettes, or because of his sexual preference. Someone took issue with him claiming that Christianity was a "cult"...actually, pretty much everyone took issue with that, and when they tried to prove him wrong logically, calmly, and precisely, all anytone got back was "I AM NOW GOING TO BE SINGLED OUT BECAUSE OF MY SEXUAL PREFERENCE/MENTAL DISORDER".
...For the record, I'm still trying to figure out how Tourettes, which is a disorder causing tics, jerking motions, and audible outbursts, can be affected on a non-real time text based medium.
(And no, I'm not the person he's trying to sue)
There was sufficient proof given BY the other party to show that the OP had sent a PM to him claiming that he was 'playing' the Moderators (including a video, after the original screenshot was claimed to be a photoshop) at which point, the OPs argument against this individual fell flat.
The fact that the OP is now trying to seek legal action is hilarious, and I'm pretty sure Cryptic can counter-sue, if needs be, for wasting their time, as well as the other party in this for defamation of character.
...G-d bless us, everyone.
This was a real CSI moment for me. I'm sure Tourettes can not be subject to, as you describe perfectly, a non-real time text based medium. At least i've never heard of this before till now.
If you sue the forum, you can as well sue the air for transmitting voice and the light for making ticks visible.
What a fellow duck is disabled?!!!
KHAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!
1) I have never once mentioned this posters alleged disability in any way shape or form, nor have I ever mocked anyone with Tourettes, directly or indirectly.
2) I have a cousin with whom I grew up with who has Tourettes, It causes her to Tick very audibly, physically, and noticeably. I am in fact sensitive to those with Tourettes and I reiterate that I have not attacked Revlot for having Tourettes.
3) I am not going to debate the entire spectrum of Tourettes or any other conditions or disabilities. If the subject of Revlot's condition being true or not comes into question in a legal case I will obtain medical counsel from multiple sources to testify on the facts of Tourettes.
4) I can produce evidence that Revlot did indeed send me the Private Message in question. It is not fake, I have it in my inbox, it is saved in screen shot format on my computer. It is backed up on 3rd party photo sites, and soon will be backed up on an external memory device. I also have the Webcam footage of myself, accessing said Private Message proving that is does actually, factually exist.
5) The video in question does not contain any hatred of any specific group of people. It shows only what I intended it to show. Which is that Revlot did indeed send me the Private Message in question and that he had been caught in a lie.
6) I can provide the video to this, the forum community but I will not do so in this post and I will ask the Community not to mock Revlot for the video.
7) I will take questions from the community on this subject if they are worded intelligibly, are non inflammatory and pertain to the subject at hand, both here publicly and in Private Message. I do not guarantee that any question or answer in Private Message will not come to public light.
I take legal action being brought against me, or against other in the name of my actions very very seriously and I will take proper legal counter action if I deem it necessary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9X_dW8hDOM
Below is the screenshot of the email in question.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k265/Evil_Coiffio/revlol1.jpg