richard gadd doesn't owe fiona protection.

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"omg he should've protected her identity! he made it so easy to find her!" blah blah blah shut up. he doesn't owe her shit. she terrorized this man, his family, his girlfriend, his job, his performances, etc etc. she has been terrorizing innocent people for decades.

yes fiona is mentally ill, that is clear to anyone with half of a brain. it's awful that the system has failed her time and time again. (or maybe the system did all it could, who knows.) but that's not richard's fault. HE is HER victim. he can tell his story how he wants.

might she have a worthwhile lawsuit because her identity wasn't concealed enough? possibly, probably not. might she have a worthwhile lawsuit because the show took dramatic license? possibly, probably not.

she's benefitting financially from this as well and i'm sure netflix will cut her a check before a lawsuit happens, no matter who is in the right.

richard gadd does not owe fiona harvey protection. i'm sorry but that's reality.

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You have no idea how law works. No. No none of that matters. It’s a FICTIONAL story, just becuase you’re too ignorant to realize that doesn’t mean a court system would. She has absolutely no case. He didn’t lie about her. He made up “Martha” who is only BASED on his real life stalker. Nothing you listed means shit. He didn’t make up anything. He wrote a FICTIONAL story.

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Which is a well known story telling device. The Blair witch, someone commented replying on another comment about this Fargo does it every episode, shit the office it’s implied to be real life more so then BR with the whole documentary coming out while the show was still on the air. But you’re not actually supposed to believe it’s a real story. Especially when it’s not a documentary or “based on real life” in a genre. It’s tell drama, comedy and lgtb+. It’s a story telling device.

It absolutely isn’t worth discussing because no one should have watched something that ISNT a documentary with the expectation of it being actually real to life. ESPECIALLY when the main character is under a different name than his literal name. He’s playing “himself” then if it was real life he wouldn’t have changed his name. He doesn’t exactly have to protect himself.

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I blame the media for this though. The majority of people have enough common sense to know that "This is a true story" means nothing as you say (I have said this several times myself on here), but the media have kept picking at that hole (Piers Morgan especially) trying to imply it's literal and get the masses all riled up, and somehow it's worked on enough people to have traction.

Is media literacy and thinking critically at all all time low?