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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.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @09:26AM (3 children)
khallow, fuck you and your government provided salary, you leech upon the system you despise! Get a real job, if you are so smart! Oh, you can't? Then shut the fuck up, and join the government workers union. Oh, you already have? Good job, khallow! Would you like a pension?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday December 09 2017, @09:54AM (2 children)
But since some people apparently need to be explicitly told, I don't approve of this retarded troll-storm. Even if somehow Anglin's intentions were pure and Gersh's ignoble, he publicized contact information for innocent people who had nothing to do with the Gersh-Spencer affair, and the resulting storm of threats and whatnot are fairly predictable and thus, should have been anticipated by a reasonable person. So he should and most likely will go down hard for what happened.
(Score: 1, Troll) by NotSanguine on Saturday December 09 2017, @10:37AM (1 child)
Although it wasn't directed at me, you've clarified your statements and sentiments. Thank you.
If I misunderstood you previously, my apologies.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Saturday December 09 2017, @11:44PM
Reading further, we have Anglin bragging [onion.link] (.onion link should work for a time) a few days after the fact that the "troll-storm" was working and that he had control over it. At that point, he would have known that there was a lot of threats of violence and had a great opportunity to call for an end to the lawbreaking.
Anglin made no attempt to tell "my people" to tone it down a little and to stop making threats. Early on, it sounds like he could have made the case that he was looking for a peaceful protest, but some bad apples got out of hand. By December 23, he would have heard what those bad apples were doing. And any time after December 23 (almost a year now), he could have edited the above web page to urge his followers to behave. That didn't happen. I think he's going down hard.
Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised to see Daily Stormer disappear and then come up again in a year or two. He probably doesn't have any assets to take and it's not hard for someone to give him enough money to start the site up again.