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One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-be-a-jerk-on-the-internet dept.

blottsie writes: Since 2010, the Straters have been under assault from an online campaign of ever-increasing harassment — prank deliveries, smear attacks, high-profile hacks, and threats of violence against schools and law enforcement officials in their name — and it's slowly torn them apart. Masterminding it all is a teenage Lizard Squad hacker from Finland, at war with their son, Blair, over a seemingly minor dispute. "When the family started getting notices about their utilities being disconnected, they realized things were escalating out of control. Utility provider Commonwealth Edison once called the house to iron out the details about a request to have the power turned off after a supposed move. Something similar happened with their trash service. On Halloween 2013, Comcast shut off their cable and Internet service."

5 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. Re:You know what's really subhuman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Wait until? They already do!

    SJWs already have websites devoted to trolling social media sites, looking for people posting things that aren't PC. They then dox them and try to get them fired.

    No, really. This is a thing SJWs do in the name of "social justice."

  2. Re:Can identity protection services help with this by Chas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lifelock is essentially worthless.

    They are a "monitoring" service.

    So what they do is go "Woo! Someone just got hold of this person's info and might be misusing it! Isn't that interesting?"

    They're a fucking confidence scam.

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    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!
  3. It's been done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/website-offers-to-cancel-comcast-for--5-180730710.html

  4. Re: Trolling is for cows. by TheReaperD · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not really an option for us who moderate on a regular basis. We have to deal with the trolling and the spam.

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  5. Re:Hire a lawyer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    And a law enforcement agency not acting on a criminal offense when provided credible evidence is pretty well a slam dunk in front of a 6 person jury for damages caused.

    That's special that you think that. Warren v. D.C., DeShaney v. Winnebago County, and a slew of other court rulings argue otherwise.