![]() ![]() Her accusations ran the gamut from professional misconduct to sexual crimes and pedophilia. She targeted former employers, former coworkers, and lawyers involved in mortgage proceedings taken against her. For years, the defendant wrote thousands of posts about people she held grievances against. The Ontario case involved a defendant whose online activities were described by the judge as “extraordinary campaigns of malicious harassment and defamation carried out unchecked, for many years''. Last month, the Ontario courts heard an extreme case and created a new way to hold people accountable on the Internet. I’ve covered online defamation before in the context of a bad break-up and a war between neighbours. Still, I was left asking myself at the end of the Netflix series, "What about Morbid? What happens when cyberbullies and Internet trolls turn on you?" Online harassment is not the focus of the Elisa Lam case and shouldn’t take away from the tragedy of what happened to Elisa. In the show, Morbid discusses his unfair treatment, mental-health struggles, and his eventual retreat from public life. He became the target of relentless online hostility and harassment. Unfortunately, Internet mobs accused Morbid of killing Elisa. As it’s covered in the show, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Morbid is the stage name of a death-metal musician. Strangers came across the viral video of Elisa and became obsessed with solving the mystery themselves. One interesting tangent in the show were the Internet sleuths. The four-part series comes from various angles to try and make sense of the story: Elisa's mental health, the Cecil Hotel’s dark past, and the terrible conditions of L.A.’s skid row. This mystery is the subject of the latest Netflix true-crime series, called Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. It shows Elisa acting erratically and it fuelled wild speculation about paranormal activity and conspiracy theories. This footage came from the hotel elevator’s security camera. The police released the last-known footage of Elisa to the media in a Hail Mary move to get leads from the public. Elisa was a UBC student who disappeared while staying in an L.A. Fans of true crime and unsolved mysteries may recognize the name Elisa Lam.
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