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Woman's Lawsuit Against a Neo-Nazi Website is Going Forward

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:False contradiction in summary (Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Friday December 08 2017, @05:03PM

  by khallow (3766) on Friday December 08 2017, @05:03PM (#607269) Journal

  lx didn't make that distinction and my reply was to him. Moving on, Anglin appears to have crossed the line [theguardian.com] by publishing personal contact information not just for the plaintiff, Tanya Gersh of the above lawsuit, but her family as well.

  In mid-December, a local news story about the spat was picked up by online trolls, including Anglin, who featured the story on his site the Daily Stormer as an outrageous example of “harassment and extortion”, and urged his supporters to “take action”.
  
  “Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?” he asked.
  
  “NO VIOLENCE OR THREATS OF VIOLENCE OR ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE TO THAT,” Anglin wrote. “Just make your opinions known. Tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda.”
  
  The post included phone numbers, e-mail addresses, addresses and social media handles for Gersh, her husband, her young son, and the founders of a local anti-Nazi human rights group.

  While Anglin is probably safe on the accusation of inciting criminal activity (at least from the post in question, since he explicitly called for no threats), he's probably going to lose the lawsuit due to revealing private contact information, particularly for parties that had no part in Gersh's actions.

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