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INTEREST: Dub Voice Actor Vic Mignogna Issues Statement: 'Taking Time to Recommit to God, Seeking He

Usher has been judged by the Wikipedia Reliable Sources noticeboard to be be not a reliable source, ever since the GG thing. Part of it is the obvious bias in his reporting, and also because of his style of reporting, which also runs afoul of Wikipedia’s rules on Biographies of Living Persons, which are supposed to be held to a higher standard.

The line from the admin that responded to me was “One Angry Gamer is not a reliable source for anything involving living people, and questionable on anything else.” That’s pretty definitive.

This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Wikipedia is a poor source for political issues. Journalists such as Dennis Prager have been barred from correcting factual errors about themselves. It's rather shocking.

AmpersandsUnited wrote:

To be fair, nobody should be using Wikipedia as a reference for anything. Every teacher or professor should have instilled that into you during your school years. I would dismiss anyone who cites it as a source for their argument on a subject. beyondashadow wrote: For starters, they could've instructed their employees to *not* go off on social media while their internal investigation was still ongoing. It's a coin toss if people are held accountable for their social media behavior. It depends on the values of their employers as well as any kind of public blowback they get from it. Some companies are okay with their employees making violent threats or racist remarks, it turns out. Some will fire their employees for simply being rude. Tweet at your own discretion. But that is just for employment. I don't think these Funimation employees should be saying certain incriminating things on social media when they could be on the cusp of being taken to court. It just seems unwise.

Incriminating things to whom? If its Vic, then yes. Vic sexually harassed Monica Rial, and dozens of other women. As far as a court case is concerned, I don't see how Vic is going to be suing Funimation for anything beyond a severance check.

That is based on the assumption he is suing and not just lawyering up for his own defence, since given we are only hearing portions on social media there could be more being held back because they are planning legal action.

Well, the lawyer in question who has been retained (and who set up the GoFundMe incidentally) has been active on his YouTube channel discussing ways those critical of Vic could potentially be sued, and encouraging viewers to post further suggestions. Based on that alone it is fair to say there is an expectation for an offense.

Sethimothy wrote:

Well, the lawyer in question who has been retained (and who set up the GoFundMe incidentally) has been active on his YouTube channel discussing ways those critical of Vic could potentially be sued, and encouraging viewers to post further suggestions. Based on that alone it is fair to say there is an expectation for an offense.

There has not been any official word this guy was retained by Vic. He started this gofundme on his own claiming to have Vic's blessing. Yes Vic has acknowledged the fundraiser, but he has not specifically said he is suing anyone. He even clearly said he had no part in this fundraiser itself. Retaining legal council, which again is not even this guy, could mean many things. People simply hear "lawyer" and jump to conclusions and make assumptions. Just as they hear some person on youtube claiming this and that and assume it's entirely accurate and legitimate. People are also only going by the assurances of this individual that the money will even go to any sort of legal fees Vic will have. I would not personally trust the professionalism or competency of a lawyer who goes off on tangents on youtube.

I have a lawyer currently due to a car accident last fall. One of the 3 rules (strong suggestions) they had was stay off social media. Don't talk about the accident on it. Things said on social media can be used against you. So the fact this guy seems to be running things via social media just screams a lack of credibility. But hey, people are going to believe whatever they want.

As far as a court case is concerned, I don't see how Vic is going to be suing Funimation for anything beyond a severance check.

In theory there might be a breach of contract for his role in The Morose Mononokean as it is ongoing but I don't know if these contracts are done on a series by series or episode by episode basis.

Would he even be eligible for that given, as people keep pointing out, he's an independent contractor not an employee? So he couldn't sue for unfair dismissal? In theory there might be a breach of contract for his role in The Morose Mononokean as it is ongoing but I don't know if these contracts are done on a series by series or episode by episode basis.

ranran-001 wrote:

As far as a court case is concerned, I don't see how Vic is going to be suing Funimation for anything beyond a severance check.

Would he even be eligible for that given, as people keep pointing out, he's an independent contractor not an employee? So he couldn't sue for unfair dismissal? In theory there might be a breach of contract for his role in The Morose Mononokean as it is ongoing but I don't know if these contracts are done on a series by series or episode by episode basis.