Critical remarks about NVIDIA and cyberbullying?

[sina]

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[Bravosgrad]

wtf

that should be out of their range, and it wouldnt make sense because of the vast number of people who got mad at nvidia over the last few months

[Rashy]

So here's the gist: I run a tech blog (which I'm not going to link here because reasons) and most people who know me IRL are aware of this. One of these people is an ex-aquiantence/schoolmate who has reported me to my university for cyberbullying before. He thought a remark I made to a fellow editor of mine was about him and then took deep offense over it. My company obviously backed up that the statement wasn't about him (while also giving me a slap on the wrist for the comments I made, but oh well).

 

Now, from what I hear from mutual friends, he's found my tech site and a few critical remarks I've made about NVIDIA in regards to the GTX 970 fiasco and disabling overclocking on their mobile parts. He is supposedly planning to report me (again) to the school for defamation (not to him, but to NVIDIA), threats, and cyber-bullying a company. I'm at a complete loss of words and I have no clue if my school can actually enforce its cyberbullying policy to an entity outside of the university, let alone to a company? If you're confused and speechless, I'm right there with you.

 

I guess the question here might be: is scolding a company like NVIDIA for dick moves technically cyber-bullying? Does it actually represent a threat? I doubt the people at my school investigating these claims know much about how news sites work, but I wouldn't be suprised if I'm called in for another round of judicials over this.

NO. no. oh god no. What you're doing is a critic. not cyber-bullying, your friend has a deep revenge doesnt he?

 

EDIT: Linus also make videos about critics, NVidia and other company take those critics and try to improve their products. Dont worry about it, if the school does make a hassle out of it, just get the fck out of the school, burn it down.

[Finn1744]

tell the school he is deliberately going out of the way to hurt you and find information to burn you so he is there for bullying you 

[Daegun]

I'll steal a picture I saw someone use earlier.

I mean, seriously...

[bob345]

why not report them? Looks like they are trying to abuse the system to get at you. Just let the school know what is going on. You are entitled to have your own opinion. If the other person has a problem with that, just tel them to back off.

[sina]

He hasn't said he plans to report me over this, but I've heard it from people I've come to trust, so I'm bracing for the worst.

[Rashy]

"Friend" isn't the proper term anymore lol. He's already damaged my bike and I've reported him to the school for that, but anything he rats me to the school over will be a permanent mark against me in my record, true or not.

 

Granted, he hasn't said he plans to report me over this, but I've heard it from people I've come to trust, so I'm bracing for the worst.

how old is this nemesis? 12 yrs old?

[sina]

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[Swndlr]

lol 

"cyberbullying a company"

[sina]

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[Guest Kloaked]

Well, I don't fully agree with your stances on the Nvidia debacles, but that does seem kinda dumb. The person sounds like a brown-noser.

[DigitalHermit]

College student. I expect more maturity from someone like this, to be honest.

 

If you're already in within the legal age, you can file for damages with your local court.

 

That seems to be within the grounds of defamation and harassment.

[DIV1D3]

"Cyberbullying is recipiet defined..."

If Nvidia takes offense, than the cops would be involved because it's outside of school matters, but such would almost never happen. 

[Finn1744]

"Cyberbullying is recipiet defined..."

If Nvidia takes offense, than the cops would be involved because it's outside of school matters, but such would almost never happen. 

i think your profile helps the effect of your comment, I like it

[DIV1D3]

i think your profile helps the effect of your comment, I like it

Why thank you good sir, I must retreat to my wine testing at this particular moment, cheerio. 

[sina]

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[SuperPug]

Sounds like he's a butthurt sissy who likes to get offended over stupid shit...

[S1lent_5am]

Some collages have codes of conduct that bind the their students and their actions beyond the campus grounds as long as they are students attending the collage. However, in this situation I do not think those would even come in to play even if the school has them and even if they do there would have to be a formal review before any judgment could be handed out. And in any case you were just being a journalist and putting information out to the public and giving your opinion on those facts and in no way was it cyber bullying. 

[SImoHayha]

Sounds like an asshole that deserves to get blackmailed.....or back stabbed by a really close friend to bring him into depths of despair and live his life as a neet.

 

But in all seriousness I highly doubt it.....its a bloody company, if everyone did that, then most people whom rant on COD constantly would be arrested....

 

But also that guy is a asshole....talk about being but hurt even after being told, it wasn't even pointed at you....

 

Also that dude clearly doesn't understand what cyber bullying is...Cyber Bullying would be If I said " Your a fat dirty asshat whom deserves to die in a fire "  that is Cyber Bullying. criticizing isn't like saying " I don't believe what they did was right, to remove overclocking from laptops. It's up to the user to not overclock or to overclock, as on many boxes and warranties that the company doesn't not repair overclocked devices and the user will be held accountable for any damages."

Edited February 15, 2015 by Ramamataz

[Manny Calavera]

Sounds like he's a butthurt sissy who likes to get offended over stupid shit...

i am offended by this post. Reported for cyberbullying to FBI, CIA, NSA, CBI, SWAT, CBS, NASA, my local church, hamster store and LAPD.

[sina]

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[handymanshandle]

Well... Since the supreme court said that a business can have a religion (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby) I guess a business can take offence to words spoken against it. 

So with this logic, when a business's product or service kills someone can they be put on trial and if they're in a state with capital punishment can the business be put on death row? (The Business disbanded and the executives are executed.) 

[Rashy]

While since the supreme court said that a business can have a religion (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby) I guess a business can take offence to words spoken against it with this logic.

So when a business's product or service kills someone can they be put on trial and if they're in a state with capital punishment can the business be put on death row? (The Business disbanded and the executives are executed.) 

Like if NVidia card malfunctioned and shocked a whole house of family? No, NVidia is the heart of the Graphics Technology, neither AMD or Intel can take its place.

[handymanshandle]

Like if NVidia card malfunctioned and shocked a whole house of family? No, NVidia is the heart of the Graphics Technology, neither AMD or Intel can take its place.

Hey AMD is actually not bad. Gosh. Though seriously if businesses owners want the same rights as a person they ought to have the responsibilities of a person (and if they live as long as person)