Richard Luthmann and were back last week for the sixteenth edition of The Unknown.
After some current events, Rick talked about a case he’s been tracking, that of TikTok star thatdaneshguy.
The Danesh Man is part of a subculture which thrives on TikTok, YouTube, and other streaming platforms.
He stretches the limits of free speech, producing provocative content which goes viral.
He’s already implicated in a suicide.
According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, it appears a Texas man took his own life because of a TikTok influencer’s videos alleging he assaulted a boy.
Aaron De La Torre, a high school football coach, committed suicide ten days after Tik Tok creator Danesh Norshirvan, known as @ThatDaneshGuy, published his first in a series of videos calling for De La Torre’s arrest and the Denton Independent School District to fire him from his job as defensive coach for the high school football team.
The Star Telegraph, reporting De la Torre’s death, wrote, “Videos detailing the alleged assault went viral on social media, collecting thousands of views.
“ThatDaneshGuy, a social media content producer specializing in exposing, targeting, and identifying wrongdoings, released a video from a bystander’s point of view.”
De La Torre eventually committed suicide. The Danesh Man is being investigated for cyberstalking.
Is his behavior criminal?
Rick talked about a second case where another individual believes she was harassed by The Danesh Guy.
After a Danesh-edited video of Couture confronting another driver in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot went viral, she faced waves of online hate, personal threats, and damage to her reputation.
She also dealt with criminal charges instigated digitally by a WOKE mob run amok on local Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno and State Attorney Amira Fox’s offices. After thousands of calls, emails, and social media posts, the Sheriff arrested Couture, and Fox, the top prosecutor, decided to charge the case as a felony.
Noshirvan described Couture as a “Karen.” And for the WOKE, she was. White, blonde, Republican, and beautiful - inside and out - she was and is anathema to the dumpy bull-dyke married to the trans-man with pre-pubescent children on puberty blockers that had become the neo-progressive ideal. She is the natural, cultural enemy of Danesh, a self-proclaimed Israel-hating “Iranian Anchor Baby.”
But Jen Couture is no Karen. She’s intelligent, tough, and gritty. A rugged individualist. A self-made businesswoman who won’t take crap. A traditional wife and mother who works full time managing a medical practice, gets her kids around town, puts dinner on the table, keeps a social calendar, and supports her husband and family - and does it all with panache.
Rick argued that videos The Danesh Guy put out were edited deceptively to make Jen Couture look like the aggressor when she was not.
The videos were used to go after her business and reputation.
I argued that if there deceptive editing could be proven, this would be defamation, a civil offense- though Rick said it was criminal in Florida where the videos were done.
I don’t believe that anything that The Danesh Guy does is criminal. Ultimately, our first amendment is very broad, and he, like everyone, has a right to exercise it broadly, even if it harasses its target.
In De La Torre’s case, The Danesh Man argued in his videos that De La Torre was the aggressor in a physical confrontation between himself and a youth. Rick argued that this was investigated and found without merit.
The first amendment is specifically designed to challenge authority. The Danesh Man should have the right to present his case, which he did.
Indeed, the purpose of the videos was to rile his followers up to attack De La Torre; that pressure caused his suicide. In my opinion, the first amendment protects that speech, no matter how abhorrent.
If he is prosecuted, it is a very slippery slope before many forms of intense journalism and speech are seen as stalking, and the first amendment ceases to exist.
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