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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: 1, Troll) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 17 2019, @11:56AM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday July 17 2019, @11:56AM (#867948) Journal

    that sounds like rule number one in most playbooks, actually. when is the last time you heard anyone address an opponent with honor?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @03:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @03:51PM (#868040)

    Lol eveyone get into the mud! There is no hope for humanity, the worst always win, give up now!!!

    Go boil yer head.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday July 17 2019, @04:56PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 17 2019, @04:56PM (#868074) Journal

    I don't recall most presidents from any party stooping to the lows that Trump does.

    You don't necessarily have to address an opponent with honor. But it is ordinary politeness to address them properly, without making up special names for them as done in kindergarten. Only Trump, as I recall, routinely, adds a pejorative adjective in front of people's names.

    Lyin' somebody
    Loosin' someone else
    Crooked someone

    And Trump is one to call anyone else lying, loosing, or crooked, by any standards of comparison to those he labels.

    As much as I like to describe Mr. Trump with terms like 'orange clown', 'jackass', etc; I wouldn't do that in a formal setting. Or in a serious forum, especially if I were representing any part of the government in any way.

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