I find it curious we are happy to report on the existence of these sex tapes, what’s in them and who’s in them and who might be responsible for filming them – but not where they are appearing.
Media organisations who have chosen not to mention NRL Memes as the source of the leaks no doubt took a moral stand not to give the Facebook page – whose owner appears to have since tried to frame someone else – any publicity.
But where do you draw the line?
NRL Memes offered to show more if it got more likes. Surely of all the possible results of this sordid affair, a Facebook page run from someone’s bedroom getting as many likes as a mainstream media outlet is the least egregious.
Yet it’s the outcome we are most keen to guard against.
To which some of my friends would say ‘we would be encouraging people to look for the video if we named the page’ – to which I would respond ‘well you could always refuse to report it at all’.
If it’s in the public interest to report Dylan Napa has gone to the police over a series of sex tapes “leaked online” then it is also in the public interest to tell us where they leaked online.
Now, there is a journalistic convention to never report the method of suicide, lest someone decide to use the description as an instruction manual. But that’s life and death – someone discovering a Facebook page and hitting like falls a long way short in the mortality test.
Anyway, it’s hard to figure out what is going on in the murky world of NRL social media gossip, but someone from ‘NRL Roast’ is claiming to have been framed by the guy from NRL Memes (pun not intended – but not avoided either), who posted a picture of the first guy, saying he lives in Parkes and daring those who didn’t like his ‘content’ to ‘come and get me’.
Dylan Napa runs the ball for the Roosters. (AAP Image/Paul Miller)
That post has since been removed.
The alleged real admin of the page has now been identified on social media. The reason I’m not naming him is purely practical, not moral – in case someone else is framing him, I’ll be sued.
You would think that he would warrant at least a visit from the constabulary and, considering some of the inane stuff Facebook has taken down from my pages, his is surely not long for this world.
Do I have any greater insight into the situation than to regurgitate this schoolyard tittle-tattle?
Not really, actually.
People in the public eye are going to record sex tapes and send sexts – right on up from Dylan Napa to Jeff Bezos. And someone is going to get hold of them, or try to get hold of them.
The vast public constituency of voyeurs is going to want to have a gander, until someone comes along and stops them. Ever will it be thus. Laws have been tightened, laudably in most cases, but no number of sermonising columns will change that.
I never really believed in picking the goodies and the baddies first and writing the story accordingly; I always thought it was best to throw them all in the story and let the reader assign the roles.
This story doesn’t seem to have many goodies.
db
Guest
Napa (Papa) should be suspended for referring to himself in the third person.
Ben Kerrison
Guest
Grow Up!
Reg Reagan
Roar Rookie
You take the bait every time like a fish yet you call yourself a goose... or is it a moose. So which is it... are you a man or a "moose"? LOL
Albo
Roar Rookie
Strewth ! I'm glad all my sex tapes were recorded in the Beta format !
Nick
Roar Guru
It "does". I'm disgusted we share citizenship.
Nick
Roar Guru
You must be a real ladies man at mooseheads Angry eagle.
Nick
Roar Guru
None of us are perfect. But we are human...he barely qualifies. Respect for you taking the "morale" "high" "ground" though. :)
Nick
Roar Guru
Well, that's obviously a lie. "Statistics prove it"...fire away then? Prove it.
Nick
Roar Guru
It speaks volumes about your self-esteem that you seem to be the only one who actually cares about, or even noticed, one's status on this website.
R N
Roar Rookie
Editor, proofreader?
Nat
Roar Guru
No, the clip I watched was 2mins long but I'm sure 40 seconds is all you lasted. Yes, she was quite actively involved but not in any manner playing up to the hidden camera by the creep in the next bed. Her back was to the camera the whole time. I think it is hilarious that you perceive any girl enjoying themselves in bed must believe they are on camera somewhere. It's a totally foreign concept to you that a girl may actually enjoy a sh@g. Prepare to have your mind blown: they don't even require payment! Sorry to crush everything you've ever known to be true.
AngryEagle47
Roar Rookie
Does it really bother you that munch !
AngryEagle47
Roar Rookie
Andrew Stewart , baaa your reading my posts I don’t remember what you posted this morning , looks like I have a “fan base “ already , groupies
AngryEagle47
Roar Rookie
Hang on , your privy to a 40sec clip , get over yourself, she’s happy to partake you can hear that she’s enjoying it
AngryEagle47
Roar Rookie
Hey goose , how long you been a “guru” Guru Goose baaaaaaaaaaa
BA Sports
Roar Guru
I take your point Spruce, but I kind of think that given 90% of his posts just attack people, if people stop replying, maybe he will go away because he has no one to talk to. Don't get me wrong, I am not perfect, but this isn't a forum, it is a opinion website and there is a difference in my opinion which e doesn't get. So I will take the moral (or morale.. lol) high ground and just ignore him. It's good for developing self control. :)
AngryEagle47
Roar Rookie
Gooooooose , hey goooose I’m just so furious, tell ya what you don’t engage me,,,,, I won’t engage you ,,,,,, baaaaa ha ha ha sook o lala
AngryEagle47
Roar Rookie
No Goose , highly paid , well off Canberran ha ha and the statistics prove it Gooooose ,
Nick
Roar Guru
@ BA Don't ignore AngryEagle47. He's not deserving of it. Attack him, again and again when he says something that is profoundly not ok, and not in anyway reflective of modern Australian values. People cannot be allowed to spew his venom unchecked. Australia no longer has time for sub-evolved humans like him. Also, attack each time he demonstrates his appalling literacy skills.
Nick
Roar Guru
I’m just now jabbing him on his rapidly plummeting literacy levels. The amount of spelling mistakes he makes in every post is quite staggering. But I’m sure he thinks he has the “morale” high ground. :0