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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles Johnson, one of the Internet’s most infamous trolls, has finally been banned from Twitter
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Chuck Johnson, the far-right mega-troll who doxed two New York Times reporters and argued that homosexuality caused the Amtrak derailment, may at last be off Twitter this time, for good.
On Sunday, Johnson was permanently suspended from the site after asking for funds to take out the civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, whos been active in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo. Twitter has also suspended a series of Johnsons new accounts, including @citizentrolling and @freechucknow, prompting Johnson and his lawyers to threaten legal action and accuse the site of censorship.
Twitter doesnt seem to have a problem with people using their service to coordinate riots, Johnson complained on his blog, GotNews.com, which has since been downed by an apparent DDoS attack. But they do have a problem with the kind of journalism I do.
In other words, Johnsons saying, Twitter is differentiating between types of acceptable speech; theyre redrawing the boundaries of things you can say in public and things you cant say in public, in a way that Johnson and others including Twitter! arent necessarily used to.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/05/26/charles-johnson-one-of-the-internets-most-infamous-trolls-has-finally-been-banned-from-twitter
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs - He was the number one trollbuster of this fellow with the similar name.
MADem
(135,425 posts)If you're a Smith or a Johnson or a Jackson or a Jones, you're going to find people with your same name...but oh it's gotta SUCK when someone in a similar line of work is all over the place dragging "your" good name through the mud.
Has to be exhausting, always wondering what this jerk is up to, and who might be mistaking one for the other....