Judge recommends $14M award to neo-Nazi trolling victim

[Downtown Hound]

Woot! Suck it Nazis!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-recommends-14m-award-neo-235453735.html

"HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The publisher of a neo-Nazi website should have to pay the victim of an internet trolling campaign over $14 million and remove all posts that encouraged his readers to contact the Montana real estate agent, a magistrate judge recommended on Monday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch called The Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin's behavior reprehensible and atrocious in telling his internet followers to unleash a "troll storm" on Tanya Gersh, her husband and her 12-year-old son in 2016.

The magistrate judge doesn't have the final word in the case. His findings and recommendations must be approved by U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen to take effect.

Gersh, whom Anglin accused of trying to run white nationalist Richard Spencer's mother out of the mountain resort community of Whitefish, said her family received hundreds of threatening, harassing and anti-Semitic messages. She sued Anglin, who argued unsuccessfully through his attorneys that his writings were protected by the First Amendment."

[JI7]

1. some good news.

[jberryhill]

2. It's a default, since Anglin can't be found

Anglin’s lawyer withdrew from representing him when it became clear that Anglin wasn’t going to cooperate with discovery.

Anglin left the US a while back, and is unlikely to be found anytime soon.

Eventually, he’ll trip up, as Gersch is not the only person chasing him with court orders.

[Downtown Hound]

5. True, but, this will make it a lot harder for him to carry on as he has been

His life just took a turn for the worse.

[customerserviceguy]

6. What?

He's not in his Mommy's basement?

[jberryhill]

7. No. His parents have been staked out for a while

There are a couple of folks keeping an eye out to see if he turns up.

[marble falls]

3. Funny how many RWers who try to cloak thenselves in the 1st Admendment ...

don't even understand what it means. It only means there will be no prior restraint to speech. You still get to be held responsible for what you say. Try saying "Fire" in a theater or use "fighting words", or doxing someone like Anglin did.

No individual right contradicts any other right or any other person's rights.

That's real test of whether a right is a right or not.

[Initech]

4. And this right here is why conservatives get banned on twitter and facebook.

It's not because they're conservatives, it's because they're insufferable jackasses