This tweet from the RIAA’s Senior Vice President of Communications is just about the most asinine thing we’ve read all day. Way to totally trivialise an issue that millions of people care passionately about. Honestly, what are you people thinking? Updated.
We understand that SOPA blackout day is probably a bummer if you’re the mouthpiece for the RIAA, but here’s a tip from your friends on that terrifying blogosphere: If you want to convince anyone other than a member of Congress that you aren’t a bunch of arseholes, maybe try a different tack. Or, if you’re going to be a dick, maybe be a dick who can spell? This man should be fired for being terrible at his job.
Or maybe try a new slogan? The RIAA: Good at Lobbying, Bad at People. [Twitter]
Update: Lamy has deleted the offending tweet. Thank goodness for screengrabs!
Shane
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 8:02 AMUntil the owners of the enciclopedias or reference material demand that it be removed under the sopa legislation
Sam
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 10:30 AMI think you should search up on Wiki how to spell encyclopedia :)
James
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:45 AMI think you should search up on Wiki how to spell encyclopaedia :)
Sam
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:36 PMActually, either is correct – just depends on which dialect of English you subscribe to.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/encyclopaedia
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/encyclopedia
“enciclopedia” however, isn’t correct in any.
James
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 1:54 PMOh how I adore semantics. Cheers for the giggle, Sam!
And Stew, well played mate.
Stew
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:40 PMI think you should search up on Wiki how to spell encyclopædia :)
Apollo
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 1:36 PMBoth are correct, but australians speak the queens english – Encyclopedia is listed in the Oxford and Webster dictionaries as being correct.
Virus__
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 8:47 AMI’d like to see a music student doing research on modern day musicians & bands find info about them in a hard copy of an encyclopedia..
AshR
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 9:17 AMwhen anyone says “Perish the thought” I always think of that crappy 90s track Cherish by Madonna :( now it’s stuck in my head…
Sam
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 10:31 AMDie.
Crazyguy1990
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 10:17 AMWhat’s a “blackrout”?
keith
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:00 AMWhat a douche` bag. It shows that the RIAA is winning the public battle when the SVP of communication only has 279 followers on twitter.
Womp
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:25 PMSince two different things are being discussed he can be both wrong and right at the same time, Wikipedia is laughable as a source of facts, SOPA is an attack on the Internet.
Brian
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 1:14 PMWomp, I think you’ll find that Wikipedia is actually a quite accurate source of information. It’s as least as good as Brittanica as demonstrated by this study in Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html one of the most prestigious scientific journals currently published.
Womp
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 4:24 PMYes, thank you for the link to the PAYWALL, where it states that Wikipedia is NEARLY as good as other sources BUT only in the area of science. And, contains a note alerting readers that the article´s claims since publication have been disputed.
If you are trying to strengthen my distrust of the accuracy of Wikipedia with irony you are doing a good job.
SamSam
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 5:21 PM“NEARLY as good…” is not the same as “laughable as a source of facts”.
Just This Guy ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 3:58 PMAs I’ve said before.
Only twits use twitter like this.
Matt L
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 4:28 PMSo he supported the fact that they want kids to walk down to the library and pay for reference materials? Money hungry cnts would love that.
CN Llige
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:41 PMThis comment has been deemed inappropriate and has been deleted.
Daz
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 1:20 AMAfter a RIAA tweet millions of people all over the world roll around on the floor pissing themselves laughing at how clueless and retarded these RIAA dinosaurs are and wonder how they managed to fabricate such wrong research statistics to try to justify their greed.
Deadsilly
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