Neo-Nazis (Daily Stormer) Have No First Amendment Right to Harassment, Judge Rules

[underpants]

Tanya Gersh of Whitefish, Mont., became the target of a neo-Nazi “troll storm” of online harassment orchestrated by The Daily Stormer.

A lawsuit accusing the publisher of the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer of coordinating a “terror campaign” of online harassment against a Jewish real estate agent cannot be dismissed on First Amendment grounds, a federal judge in Montana ruled this week.

In his ruling denying a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, Dana L. Christensen, the chief judge for United States District Court in Missoula, Mont., wrote that the real estate agent, Tanya Gersh, was a private citizen, not a public figure, and that the publisher, Andrew Anglin, incited his followers to harass her as part of a personal campaign.

In the months that followed, the site published over 30 related posts — and the phone numbers, email addresses and social media profiles of Ms. Gersh, her husband and 12-year-old son, as well as friends and colleagues, the suit states.

The organization now expects the civil case to go to trial. It has taken a long time because it proved impossible to serve Mr. Anglin with legal papers, Mr. Dinielli said. Mr. Anglin’s last known address was in Ohio, but his whereabouts have been unknown for nearly two years. He is still running the site, possibly from overseas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/us/daily-stormer-anti-semitic-lawsuit.html

[pwb]

1. Overseas hate? Right out of Putins playbook.

Divide our people in any way possible. Trumps buddy behind most of it.

[Roland99]

2. And friends and colleagues, too?

Good gawd these people are vile. And obviously way too much time on their hands

[demmiblue]

3. Wow, he has raked in @ $420,00 since January 2017 (per the linked site in the article).

Here is something:

These days, the address seems to spend funds pretty regularly, but small donations continue to roll in. It appears no one has told owner Andrew Anglin about the potential dangers of address reuse. Certainly, there are plenty of people who’d like to know where all these donations are coming from, and companies like Chainalysis wouldn’t have much difficulty determining such information with an address reused this many times.

Vile, Vile people.