The Newsroom (TV Series)

Oh Shenandoah (2014)

Thomas Sadoski: Don Keefer

Quotes 

• Don Keefer : ...The law can acquit. The Internet never will. The Internet is used for vigilantism every day. But this is a whole new level and if we go there, we're truly fucked.

  Mary : I'm not a vigilante.

  Don Keefer : Do you want to live in a world where...

  Mary : [interrupts]  Do you want to hear the advice I get? I mean, this is real advice. In pamphlets. Say you have a boyfriend. Wear a wedding ring. I'm supposed to protect myself from a man by pretending I'm the property of another man. And, of course, there's no shortage of good fashion advice.

  Don Keefer : Mary...

  Mary : When you came in here, you wanted to go to a public place because you were scared I'd cry rape. I'm scared of getting raped. I'm scared all the time. I'm scared all the time. So you know what my site does? It scares you. It scares the living shit out of any guy who thinks even once about putting his hands on someone without an invitation.

  Don Keefer : You're right to name your attacker. You may even be obligated to. But the site is gonna clobber an innocent person and there is no chance that it won't. And if you face off with the guy you've accused on TV, it is going to be a lawless food fight with irreversible, irretrievable consequences. Teams will be formed, you will be slut-shamed, and you won't get the justice you're looking for. That's why I'm asking you to refuse.

• Bree Dorrit : That app's driving a lot of traffic.

  Don Keefer : I don't care if it's driving in the Grand Prix of Monaco. I need you to temporarily take it down.