Posting personal pics as avatar/signature

[sereia 0]

middle east / north africa

[doodlebug 3]

Wow. What a racist b!tch!

did I miss something?

Who WHere WHen WHat??

The woman's blog that has the pics up. Wicked racist against Arabs and Muslims. blech.

[Lance27 19]

Wow.. That was just wrong. Cant believe there are people out there that would do stuff like that. These pictures were taken and posted online without their owners permission and more over she put down some really nasty things about them. Isnt there a way for them to sue for libel? and for using their pictures without their permission?

I just read 3 of the stories and I was sick, couldn't nor did I want to read any further.

[smoke20 0]

yah thats f'ed up. my pics are coming down.

[doodlebug 3]

What's even more screwed up is that people actually call this person a journalist.

I swear anyone can have a blog and post things and if their views are popular or full of controversy and attract a lot of hits they suddenly become famous....and all the while they have absolutely no credentials except for knowing how to click on the right buttons to create a blog and spew out whatever they like without any care for things like copyright laws or basic journalism 101...checking sources and making sure the story is authentic before posting it. These people get such big egos and for what...for posting a lot of bs that blind people just follow. Makes me sick.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Question: is it even legal for someone to take our pictures, publish our timeline information, and call us "suckers"???

Caro

[sara535 15]

well, I am not sure how it all played out but I believe at that time the point was made that this IS a public site and like so many other public sites we post here at our own will and our own risk. however I am not at all sure what, if any, action was ever looked into by the parties actually involved. it was the mean spiritedness that was just so breathtaking about it all. Going back and reading all that ####### though made me proud of some of the VJ members... Makes me miss Merc!

I also find it pretty scary to see how many completely ignorant sheeple there are out there.

Edited June 26, 2007 by sara535

[doodlebug 3]

And if you look at her current page she hasn't changed one little bit.

It really is scarey that she has a following.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

yeah, but we agree to visajourney publishing our information when we join, but if someone comes to the site and takes our information, aren't they violating visajourney's intellectual property?

Caro

[sara535 15]

well, you would think so but I do know at the time that whole scene happened the VJ moderators were well aware of it all and to my knowledge nothing was ever done. so that makes me think that maybe doing something was not an option? because its true, those pics are still there a year later, so obviously nothing compelled her to take them down....

[JVKn'CVO 11]

well, you would think so but I do know at the time that whole scene happened the VJ moderators were well aware of it all and to my knowledge nothing was ever done. so that makes me think that maybe doing something was not an option? because its true, those pics are still there a year later, so obviously nothing compelled her to take them down....

sorry you guys had to bare those aweful ignorant comments

Caro

[LaL 418]

What's even more screwed up is that people actually call this person a journalist.

sorry Doodle - *i* called her a journalist. and she is a blogger which is a type of journalist of today.

[sandinista! 1,816]

Wow. What a racist b!tch!

did I miss something?

Who WHere WHen WHat??

The woman's blog that has the pics up. Wicked racist against Arabs and Muslims. blech.

but when someone on this very website writes "once you go arab you never go back" it isn't demeaning or belittling or worthy of a "blech"? strange. very strange indeed.

[Yodrak 7]

Caro,

It's your intellectual property, not VisaJourney's, and it's your responsibility to protect it.

From the TOS:

You acknowledge and agree that all information, code, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, chat, messages, files, links and other materials (collectively, "Content"), whether posted publicly or privately, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not Visajourney.com, are entirely responsible for all Content that you publish, post, upload, distribute, disseminate or otherwise transmit (collectively, "Post") via the Service.

Yodrak

yeah, but we agree to visajourney publishing our information when we join, but if someone comes to the site and takes our information, aren't they violating visajourney's intellectual property?

Caro

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Caro,

It's your intellectual property, not VisaJourney's, and it's your responsibility to protect it.

From the TOS:

You acknowledge and agree that all information, code, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, chat, messages, files, links and other materials (collectively, "Content"), whether posted publicly or privately, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not Visajourney.com, are entirely responsible for all Content that you publish, post, upload, distribute, disseminate or otherwise transmit (collectively, "Post") via the Service.

Yodrak

yeah, but we agree to visajourney publishing our information when we join, but if someone comes to the site and takes our information, aren't they violating visajourney's intellectual property?

Caro

mmm so maybe that's why she got away with posting such a nasty column?

Everything she says is still highly racist, she shouldn't be allowed to do those things if you ask me

Caro