The world of keyboard bravery grows stronger every day as the crossover between online harassment and freedom of speech continues. So how does one control the first amendment on the interweb – PB/TK
Jewish woman sues Andrew Anglin over ‘troll storm’ – By Patrick Strickland and Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath / Aug 1 2017
Tanya Gersh woke up the morning of December 16, 2016, unaware of the storm that was about to hit her inbox, mailbox, social media accounts and voicemail.
Gunshots rang out on her answering machine.
A wave of anti-Semitic and violent messages flooded her inbox.
“Death to Tanya,” read one of them.
“Rat-faced criminals who play with fire tend to get thrown in the oven,” threatened another.
Similar comments appeared on her social media feeds. “Hickory dickory dock, the k*ke ran up the clock. The clock struck three and the internet Nazi trolls gassed the rest of them,” one user tweeted at her.
In total, Gersh, her husband and 12-year-old son received more than 700 messages of harassment, according to court documents.
Gersh, a Jewish real estate agent from Montana, had been the target of a coordinated harassment and intimidation campaign, spearheaded by Andrew Anglin, a blogger who the runs the country’s most widely visited neo-Nazi website.
Continue to Aljazeera.com article: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/07/jewish-woman-sues-andrew-anglin-troll-storm-170731080415524.html
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