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posted by takyon on Friday December 08 2017, @11:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the Mein-cyberbullying-Kampf dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 08 2017, @05:17PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday December 08 2017, @05:17PM (#607273) Journal

    I think there has to be some number larger than a couple of guys before a minority can be a viable target for real hate speech. Else, they're a novelty, not a threat. Where i grew up there was one Vietnamese family and their son was elected president of the student body. There was also one kid who was a white supremacist who memorably got up to denounce the corrosive influence of blacks and jews and all of us white kids who constituted 100% of the class looked around at each other and said "what black kids? What jews?"

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