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Something from your own backyard, not sure if you've seen it:
http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/110...ave-her-alone/

Man facing jail for twitter interactions:
“@greg_a_elliott Please do me a favour & not reply to my posts. You don’t follow me- were you creeping the #TOpoli tag to find my tweet?” she tweeted on Aug. 9, 2012.

“.@ladysnarksalot how’d you feel if I was so delusional to ask you to not retweet me? You want “control” use your email, not Twitter. #TOpoli,” @greg_a_elliott replied, after suggesting that Reilly didn’t understand the point of Twitter.

[...]
The exchanges became increasingly hostile that month, with @greg_a_elliott tweeting that Reilly was a “hateful b–tch” and accusing her and other women he dubbed “#fascistfeminists” of ganging up on him, Reilly said.

He also posted tweets like “Heather’s fat *** gets fatter” with the #topoli hashtag but without mentioning her Twitter handle in the tweet (known as subtweeting), the court heard. Subtweeting meaning the other Twitter user mentioned won’t be automatically notified that he or she is being discussed.

It was on Sept. 11 when Reilly began to be concerned for her safety, she testified. She and a group of friends met at a west-end bar and were tweeting about their evening, she testified.

“A whole lot of ugly at the Cadillac Lounge tonight,” @greg_a_elliott tweeted. The tweet made her fear that Elliott was at the same bar and search the room to make sure he was not, she said.

Her concerns “escalated from name-calling to that he could do physical harm to me,” she said. (Elliott is not accused of threatening any of the complainants.)

Two weeks later @greg_a_elliott replied to a tweet she sent related to the Toronto International Film Festival and it was the last straw, she said.

She reported the @greg_a_elliott account to Twitter, but they offered no assistance. She went to the police after seeing Elliott was charged with criminally harassing Stephanie Guthrie, she said.

“Not everyone on the Internet is going to be your friend and wants to be your friend,” said Reilly, acknowledging that Twitter is a publicly available forum. “There are people out there who just want to stir up a reaction.”

But she testified that Elliott’s tone and repeated and deliberate involvement of her in Twitter fights crossed a line. “I didn’t appreciate the attacks I felt I received,” she told the court.

Elliott’s lawyer has argued that the three complainants in the case conspired to gang up on Elliott, and were in fact the ones who were bullying Elliott.
Public forum, watch out, you might be going to jail (posted the accuser's account, the other side paints a much different picture when they started 'to fear for their life' based on his non-direct tweets, yeah, canadian law is perfect, in NZ it's even better btw)
We've passed the crazy point, examples like lynch mobbing Tim Hunt don't stop the crazy, victims now have the privilege. Internet is no longer good to share ideas, as you might have real life consequences from that (anyone here whose nick is easily linked to their name is probably aware of that when they want to comment on some 'funny' post, will it make some people angry and cost me a lot? Maybe better avoid it and just nod politely, if you haven't had this, good for you, but watch out, not taking that into consideration can end in a crash course in internet justice)

edit: last edit as I'm out, my first lesson about internet some twenty something years ago was from a very intelligent guy, it went something like this: you can't erase a thing from the internet, so once you go public, it's done. anonymity is something you need to keep in mind, there's no getting it back
That was before google, before NSA (at least their internet data mining programme afaik), this guy was a good mentor. In the age of FB most people forgot it. Maemo(tm) community expecting people to abandon that principle to form a GA and circumvent referendum rules? BAD IDEA, there I said it, goodnight

Last edited by szopin; 2015-07-23 at 22:33.