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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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Original Submission

• Re:Not Censorship, Just America's Favorite Sport (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday December 08 2017, @06:31PM

  by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Friday December 08 2017, @06:31PM (#607328) Homepage Journal

  OTOH, lawsuits seem appropriate here. Some blogger in Ohio just irresponsibly caused you and your entire family a great deal of stress and effort (all their contact information needs to be changed and they may need to increase their security as well). What more appropriate method of redress is there than a lawsuit?

  Please understand, I'm not suggesting that the lawsuit is inappropriate. Quite the opposite, in fact.

  My adorable little rant was more to show those who think it's inappropriate for this lawsuit to go forward that people sue other people for all kinds of reasons, many (most, perhaps) which are much less (alleged) egregious behavior.

  Further, read your links. They are both completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. Anglin didn't stalk Gersh. A reoccurring pattern of harassment would need to be shown rather than just one incident that went way out of hand. Similarly, Anglin is not an employer of Gersh. Thus, workplace rules about harassment don't apply.

  Actually, that was kind of my point. The plaintiff (apparently) has no recourse with the criminal justice system, so availed herself of the civil courts. a jury (absent an out-of-court settlement) will decide if her claims have merit. As it should be, IMHO.

  The truth is that we are pretty much in agreement here. Yes, I know. It's a little disconcerting for me too. :)

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  No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

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