The stupid things that True Finn fanboys and -girls do

So its election time again and the election time stupidity has reached new hights. I found a blog called natsivahti and a Facebook group called Jussi-Halla-ahon-kootut-sanansa-syömiset. The first translates roughly to Nazi Watch and the second to "the collected statements said and withdrawn by Jussi Halla-aho". Both are basically collections of screenshots of Facebook discussions on the very much public walls of True Finn fanboys and girls. I have no problem with the content of the messages, if being a racist homophobe is your thing, then good for you. This is not the stupidity I am talking about.

The stupidity I am talking about is the apparent intent of the said True Finn Fanboys and girls to press a class action law suite for defamation of character against those two sites. This is double facepalm worthy stupidity on so many levels that I don't really know where to begin. Well here is a start, how about the fact that in Finland you can only start a class action suit in consumer protection cases even those suits are lead by the consumer protection advocates office. So there is no way, no how this law suite would ever make it forward.

Moving on. Not only is this lawsuit impossible to file on due the legal technicallity described above, they are basically sueing the sites for publishing things that they themselves said and published on their apparently very public Facebook profiles. So the defamation of character comes from things that they said themselves. So under this logic could they maybe sue themselves? I don't think these people have any concept of how media works, let alone how social media works. I was under the impression that most of our media revolves around reporting what various, usually famous people, say and do in public and occasionally in their private lives. Lets take an example of the more traditional medias, couple of months ago Alexander Stubb, a Finnish Minister involved in foreign relations, said something like "Fuck this shit" when refering to the Nordic Council meeting he was attending. So under the TF Fanboy and girl logic, Stubb could have sued every single newspaper, TV channel and radio station that repeated the story of his little FUBAR.

This effect is even more enhanced in the social media, where basically anyone with a computer, smartphone and camera can become a reporter. So when you say and do stupid shit either in public or on Facebook, it shouldn't come as a surprise if someone records it and shares it to the rest of the planet. I mean that's what the bloody social media is about, having the ability share information, thoughts and ideas online. If you don't want your stupidity made public, don't do stupid shit in public.