The idea of suing a website might seem abhorrent to advocates of free speech on the internet, but maybe one case shows that it can be justified?
Whitefish Woman's Lawsuit Over 'Daily Stormer' Harassment Proceeding
The Missoulian is reporting [archive] that a Whitefish woman's lawsuit against a Nazi website is going forward.
Montana Public Radio reports that Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, is being sued by an individual the website targeted because of the mother of Richard Spencer:
The Daily Stormer called for readers to harass her and her family over her dealings with the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer.
Image of part of the complaint (PDF).
Northwestern Montana, however, has had some experience in dealing with neo-Nazis in the neighborhood.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday December 08 2017, @01:51PM (10 children)
Sargon did nothing wrong!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 5, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Friday December 08 2017, @03:06PM (6 children)
Right. Because those wordings plant doubt by using rare/fringe cases to broadly paint over the issue to try and dilute it. Sure there are false rape accusations and blood thirsty jihad muslims lusting to murder innocent westerners. But there are many who are so afraid of these groups that they will use disinformation and character assassination to marginalize and oppress these groups.
(Score: 5, Touché) by nitehawk214 on Friday December 08 2017, @03:21PM (5 children)
Couldn't you say that the statement "People complaining about lack of free speech on the internet tend to be Alt-Right and Nazi affiliated these days." is using an overly broad brush and that not everyone in favor of free speech is alt-right or a nazi?
Or did you want to skip right to character assassination to marginalize and oppress these groups?
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday December 08 2017, @04:06PM
What?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @08:08PM (3 children)
Or did you want to skip right to character assassination to marginalize and oppress these groups?
I would be more in favor of concentration camps, and then tribunals and summary execution, but we might try de-Nazification, like we did after WWII. The turn of phrase is that the neo-Nazis have "weaponized" free speech.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 09 2017, @03:35AM (2 children)
Just so you know, summary executions don't require camps, tribunals, or any of the other trappings of law, no matter how unjust the law might be. Summary executions are just - you know - summary. I decide that you die, I pull the trigger, and it's all over but the crying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @09:39AM (1 child)
Silly Arkansawite! Do they no longer have civic classes in your high-schools? Of course they require these things to maintain the "cover" of law. It is just like when you are fucking the livestock, and you pretend that since you "own" them, that this is part of the deal. But, you know, it does not? So, no summary animal husbandry, OK? Runaway? Please? And no sexting of such encounters, because, you know. swine do not have smartphones, so there really is no point.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 09 2017, @04:52PM
As usual, when AC attempts to be cute and witty, he fails. THIS is a summary execution: http://craniorectalectomy.com/images/saigon_execution.jpg [craniorectalectomy.com]
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday December 08 2017, @04:29PM
Whether your claim about being "deplatformed" is true or not, the issue is one of liberty. Without the ability to reliably and with sufficient bandwidth, self-host, you're forced to deal with private third-parties who can censor you at their whim.
So you can deal with it or you can work with your neighbors to get community-owned/operated last mile symmetric internet services (preferably FTTH) and force ISPs to compete for your business. Unless and until you do so, you're vulnerable to censorship by whoever owns your hosting platform.
So the answer is clear, it's just not easy to fight the anti-competitive ISP oligopoly and their paid shills^W^W buddies over at ALEC [alec.org].
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @06:48PM (1 child)
As reported to the police, it's 84% false accusation. Most of these won't go to trial; the percentage at trial is lower but I don't know that number.
Typical motives: to cover up an affair, to avoid being in trouble with parents, relationship failure
(Score: 2, Insightful) by t-3 on Friday December 08 2017, @08:44PM
Citation?