Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 54 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Call Me Mr. Feet
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.24.2013
Alicia: "Yeah, it's awkward and whatever. Anyway, let's ask him why Scabbit's ignoring your C&D like they don't respect you at all."Will: "We adhered to it, Your Honor. Took down the thread mentioned."
Robyn: "Yeah but now it's just renamed."
LG: "Renamed? No. A new, spontaneous expression of the site's members. Did you want that deleted?"
CEO: (Beep.)
Of course, another one sprouts immediately, and Alicia throws down.
Alicia: "It's Whack-A-Mole, Your Honor! I object because of it is Whack-A-Mole!"
Kluger: "I don't even really know where that saying comes from. Is it a thing?"
Damian: "I have played it on the Navy Pier, Your Honor. It is good for aggressions. Not so good for the moles, but it's okay because they're robots."
Kluger: "What part of Ireland are you from?"
Damian: "I'm not Irish, it's a fake accent. I'm from Queens."
He's like the Joker! A thousand origin stories. That's when I knew Kalinda was going to get involved in his shit, because that's exactly the ball of yarn she loves best.
Alicia: "Scabbit can honor the spirit of your ruling by having their mods delete threads as they appear. Easy."
LG: "I don't understand, do what?"
Cary: "Your Honor, we ask that ChumHum -- excuse me, Scabbit -- issue an edict to have those moderators prohibit postings vilifying Zayeed Shaheed..."
Will: "That's prior restraint! Your Honor, I'm shocked Mrs. Florrick and Mr. Agos would even suggest it. Maybe that kind of bullshit would work for ChumHum..."
It's like there's a little bell that goes off every time either of them mentions ChumHum. Cocky Cary's doing it to call them punks, and Will's doing it to suggest they are sour grapes, but really both of them are doing it because that's what this is really about, and now we all know it: A case infringing on freedom of information, especially in a site with features similar to ChumHum, could make or break a pitch to Neil Gross about where he should place his business. If the only reason he picked F/A was Peter's threat about regulation, then the best chance LG has to change his mind is by championing the other side of it.
Another thread pops up, and again the CEO deletes it right there, and everybody just kind of sighs because what a ridiculous way to spend an afternoon. Unfortunately, reframing the C&D would be the definition of prior restraint, so it's the best Kluger can do. They all tromp off, trying to figure out a new way to break the stalemate. But then too, this is another kind of rabbit hole: The whole point is to keep the FBI from misusing the rants of crazy people to score an easy win against a person they have already destroyed, because when they find the real bomber it won't matter what happened to him. Which is, for at least the next couple of scenes, preventable.
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