Picture this. You’re on vacation when suddenly your phone blows up with an unwelcome interruption: a coworker has forwarded a statement from somebody he knows implying that you might be a pedophile. But it doesn’t stay between you and him. It goes viral online. Soon you and your spouse get phone calls and threatening mail from strangers.
The next day your coworker releases a subsequent statement apologizing for “being a part” of a situation that may have imperiled your family, explaining that it was all just jokes, talking s**t, and “[making] light of everything.” This doesn’t stop garden variety lunatics from continuing to menace you and your loved ones.
