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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 16 2019, @10:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the Being-a-Nazi-is-not-cheap dept.

According to The New York Times, Andrew Anglin, whereabouts unknown, could be on the hook for a bit of cash.

The publisher of a neo-Nazi website should pay more than $14 million in damages for encouraging "an online anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation campaign" against a woman in 2016, a federal magistrate judge in Montana recommended on Monday.

In his opinion, the judge, Jeremiah Lynch, also recommended that the publisher, Andrew Anglin, be made to remove all blog posts from the website, The Daily Stormer, that encouraged readers to contact the woman, Tanya Gersh, and her family.

Within months of Mr. Anglin's call for a "troll storm" against them, Ms. Gersh and her family had received more than 700 vulgar and hateful messages, many referring to the Holocaust. They temporarily fled their home.

Mr. Anglin did not appear in court, and his location is unknown. He did not respond to an email on Monday requesting comment on the lawsuit. And it was not clear how much money if any could ever be collected from him.

Nice that Andrew has gone back to where he's from, allegedly Thailand.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 17 2019, @03:45AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 17 2019, @03:45AM (#867827) Journal

    actionable phrases

    You're so full of shit (and the moderators too!). There's no such thing.

    Oh, really?
    But that measure, Heinrich Himmler should've been innocent of holocaust, he didn't do anything else but speak.
    The persons truly responsible should've been those who carried out his orders, eh?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @06:28AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @06:28AM (#867876)

    Are you joking? Maybe you're thinking of Goebbels.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday July 17 2019, @06:42AM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 17 2019, @06:42AM (#867882) Journal

      Substitute the speaker person** you think is appropriate, my point doesn't change in the matter of its substance.

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      ** Based on the info I got [wikipedia.org]

      Somewhere around the time of the German declaration of war on the United States in December 1941, Hitler finally resolved that the Jews of Europe were to be "exterminated." Heydrich arranged a meeting, held on 20 January 1942 at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. Attended by top Nazi officials, it was used to outline the plans for the "final solution to the Jewish question". Heydrich detailed how those Jews able to work would be worked to death; those unable to work would be killed outright. Heydrich calculated the number of Jews to be killed at 11 million, and told the attendees that Hitler had placed Himmler in charge of the plan.

      See? Supposedly only "no-such-thing as actionable speech" words being uttered!

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      • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @02:02AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @02:02AM (#868318)

        Yes, it's still bullshit. The people who carry out the orders are the guilty party, nobody else. What would Hitler be without followers?? An unknown painter, maybe.