Posted on 05/29/2015 11:31:21 PM PDT by rickyrikardo
On Saturday, Chuck C. Johnson invited his Twitter followers to send some money his way so that he could focus on his latest project: “taking out” the civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson. Johnson is a 26-year-old California man who has been described as “Twitter’s most infamous right-wing troll” (Mother Jones), a “digital Darth Vader” (Politico), “your least favorite person” (the Washington Post), and “mood slime” (the New York Times). He is best known for outing the subject at the center of the discredited Rolling Stone UVA story, publishing the home addresses of New York Times Ferguson reporters Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson, and parsing Mike Brown’s Instagram photos for proof of a “violent streak.” So when Mckesson discovered that he had been chosen as Johnson’s next target, he tweeted that he considered Johnson’s statement “a serious threat.” The next day, Mckesson went on CNN to call for Johnson to be permanently banned from Twitter. “I have faith in the platform,” he told CNN. “I hope his suspension is indefinite.”
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He is best known for outing the subject at the center of the discredited Rolling Stone UVA story
Publishing the identity of someone falsely accusing individuals, a college, the entire fraternity system and by extension all males is wrong why?
publishing the home addresses of New York Times Ferguson reporters Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson
As I understand it, this was in retaliation for their publishing the officer's (since exonerated) home address, putting him and his family at extreme risk.
and parsing Mike Brown’s Instagram photos for proof of a “violent streak.”
OK, that did seem a tad off the wall. But the author here, as in the earlier examples, makes not even the slightest attempt to explain why this was such a horrible thing to do. She simply assumes that any attempt to analyze the life of the dead Mikey Brown is unacceptable.
There is an assumption that alleged victim = victim, in the case of UVA’s Jackie.
See the part where he created a new handle after his old one was suspended?
That is against the rules. Notifying Twitter that you’ve broken the rules, and asking them what they plan to do about it, was dumb, but was what he did.
Their bandwidth. Their software, hardware & money.
Was that the reason they cited for the latest suspension?
Actually I have “followed” him on twitter and fb...he is an awesome off the wall type of reporter! He was the one that broke the story of Thad Cochran and how he was going to the democrats to get/buy votes because if only the republicans vote (with no dem coming in the help) he would have lost the race
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