• Sibbo
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    -247 days ago

    Is this a US university? I’d imagine this Megan Finger here could sue for millions of punitive damages for getting such a username.

    • @fl42v@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      I’ve heard you guys hate puns, but dedicating a whole lawsuit type to them is a bit over the edge, IMO…

      • Sibbo
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        -207 days ago

        Yeah, or make a scene and be rich. What would you do?

        • Annoyed_🦀 A
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          137 days ago

          Contact IT and get it change. There’s no way this is worthy of a lawsuit, let alone something worth million.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          147 days ago

          Most states have laws saying there has to be a chance to take a simple remedy first. So your case would likely get thrown out if you didn’t go to IT and try first. It’s when you give them the opportunity to fix it and they refuse that you get rich.

          • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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            36 days ago

            even without such a law everyone’s going to think you’re an idiot anyways and not bother with your nonsense, always get evidence in writing.

        • @zeezee@slrpnk.net
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          267 days ago

          contact IT and get it changed. who’s got time to spend years in court to settle for three fiddy…

    • arsCynic
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      127 days ago

      I don’t understand why it’s always in the millions. How the hell would this username account for millions in damage?

      • Yozul
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        67 days ago

        It isn’t. People just like to bring up the 2 or 3 most extreme examples from a country of a third of a billion people and pretend that’s a normal, everyday occurrence. You’d think that people would realize that none of us have ever actually met anyone that ever successfully sued anyone for millions of dollars and extrapolate, but they’d rather be mad at some imaginary problem in a way that conveniently makes it more difficult to use the legal system to defend ourselves from rich people if we “fix” it.