I never implied that you said he was innocent. I'm saying for someone so whiney about hurt feelings yaniv dishes more shit out than what he actually receives and deserves. If yaniv didn't fling shite around perhaps "moron" Donald woudn't be doing what he's doing.
And? When Donald starts anonymously targetting, intimidating and trying to extort money from mainly women of colour (abusing the legal system to do so) or when he targets and goes out of his way to try and intimidate folks on social media, getting their a/cs closed or perhaps when he threatens people with throat-slitting or out and out murder because he doesn't like what's written online or when he grooms young kids online then I might have a different opinion. Until he stoops to white trash level as is jonathan yaniv then my opinion remains.
KF will no doubt find someone else to mock and "abuse" when yaniv's story dies down, so no difference on that score is there?
Apologies for the interjection.
Here is my humble, and possibly unwelcome, opinion on the matter of Smith v. Yaniv, and other recent Yaniv-related issues that have been brought to my attention via some concerned onlookers.
Donald and I have spoken extensively. I do not believe him to be a totally unproblematic individual but the fact of the matter is --
He has a bonafide intellectual disability, and while I will not disclose how he came to have this disability specifically, I can promise you it is extremely tragic, and I would not wish it upon my worst enemy. It absolutely has to do with physical trauma sustained during childhood. Draw a conclusion.
Donald is vulnerable. Very vulnerable. He might be funny to some of you, but I do feel bad for him. He is acting from a place of anxiety and hurt. I can tell you that.
Thoughts on some stuff:
THE DMCA:
I addressed this on my Twitter, but Yaniv DMCA'd Donald's YouTube channel to ban. This was, in fact, illegal. Perhaps the first legitimately and completely illegal activity Yaniv has partaken. Perhaps Yaniv saw my commentary on this and that is why he sustained from striking Donald's second iteration of his channel.
A summary of why: Youtube has a horribly broken DMCA system. This has been exposed multiple times (most recently in the Veronica Wang/Mukbanger Drama situation). Youtube does not arbitrate copyright claims. It immediately accepts them. All claimants have to do is digitally sign a requisition that states they have ownership of the content they are striking, and acknowledge potential consequences for false strikes or bad-faith strikes against fair use content.
Yaniv would have had to do this
3 times before Donald's channel was banned.
The ironic tragedy? This would have to be taken to court. Donald does not have the money nor intellectual capacity to take this to court.
If Donald did take this to court, Yaniv would lose and absolutely be responsible for financial damages. If I lived in British Columbia, I would try to help Donald, but I am on the other side of the country.
THE MEOW MIX:
Some sort of bizarre sting operation I constantly get tagged in on my Twitter. I do not know the legalities of this in Canada. I certainly do not want any participation in this, and I do not want to see Donald dragged into it. I have warned him away from this. We all know that if this game of
To Catch a Predator goes tits up it will be Donald who takes the fall.
This "Meow Mix/Manda Panda" thing seems to be a group of (well-meaning, I'm sure) individuals who are trying to lure Yaniv into displaying sexual proclivities towards a minor. What kills me about it,
absolutely kills me, is...
WE KNOW YANIV HAS SEXUAL PROCLIVITIES TOWARDS MINORS.
WE HAVE LEGITIMATE VICTIMS OF YANIV. REAL, LIVE VICTIMS.
Whenever I see sting operations aimed at pedophiles, they tend to all revolve around one thing: Getting the pedophile to
arrange to have sex with the minor. Further, they are conducted by the Police. Not by random people online. Thus, my concerns about the legality.
The stings are NOT aimed at getting the predator to be flirtatious or gross. Hell, we have PLENTY of
legitimate and real examples of Yaniv being flirtatious and gross with
legitimate and real minors. This, apparently, is not illegal in the good ol' snow-white North.
I have condemned this "sting" on my Twitter. I will continue to do so. I have told Donald to walk away from it.
And why am I not for this? It ultimately serves no purpose.
We have REAL victims. We have REAL audio/video/messages. We don't need staged bullshit. The staged bullshit does nothing, in my humble opinion, but delegitimise all of the real stuff that we should continue
pressing the importance of.