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Former MLB Pitcher Doxes Internet Trolls, Delivers Real-World Consequences

Posted by Soulskill on from the countering-free-speech-with-more-free-speech dept.

An anonymous reader writes: When Twitter trolls began posting obscene, sexually explicit comments about his teenage daughter, former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling responded by recording their comments and gathering personal information readily available to the public. He then doxxed two of them on his blog, resulting in one being suspended from his community college and the other being fired from his part-time job as a ticket seller for the New York Yankees. There were seven others in Curt's crosshairs, all college athletes, but although he hasn't publicly doxxed those individuals, he hints, "I found it rather funny at how quickly tone changed when I heard via email from a few athletes who'd been suspended by their coaches. Gone was the tough guy tweeter, replaced by the 'I'm so sorry' apology used by those only sorry because they got caught."

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  1. Sad by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are far too many sociopaths in the world, and the Internet seems to be a perfect playground for their misanthropy.

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    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  2. Seems like he's cool by russotto · · Score: 5, Informative

    The guys who were just messing around with stuff like "Can't wait to date her!" he responded in kind, and the people who were total shits he took the gloves off with.

    1. Re:Seems like he's cool by drevange · · Score: 4, Informative

      You either totally misunderstood or misread Coward's comments. There were two types of comments. There was the low key basic trolling that you would expect and that was handled in a regular way. The stuff you just pointed out is separate from that and what drove things over the edge. That was Curt's whole point. He expected the former, and the latter is just way too much.

  3. Re:Uh ...wat? by kogut · · Score: 5, Informative

    For example, "murder" is someone kills someone else, be it by accident, pre-mediated, etc.

    Incorrect, and also a terrible example for the point you're trying to make. Murder is the malicious, unlawful killing of someone. It is certainly *not* appropriate to use "murder" to describe an accident. Manslaughter is killing someone with mitigating legal circumstances. Accidentally kiling someone is usually called involuntary manslaughter.

  4. Re:Uh ...wat? by unrtst · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are correct. I used the wrong word. I believe a more appropriate word would have been "Homicide", which is simply to cause the death of another human being, whereas "murder" and "manslaughter" are types of homicide.

    My point stands though, so thanks for correcting me, and a big FU to the AC's yelling STFU and contributing nothing of value to the topic.