Montana real estate agent sues neo-Nazi website over 'troll storm'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

A Montana real estate agent who said she and her 12-year-old son received hundreds of threatening anti-Semitic messages after a neo-Nazi website called on its readers to launch a "troll storm" against her sued the site's owner in federal court on Tuesday.

Real estate agent Tanya Gersh filed a civil suit accusing the publisher of the white supremacist Daily Stormer website, Andrew Anglin, of invading her privacy, intentionally inflicting emotional distress and violating the state's anti-intimidation act by calling on his readers in December to target her with e-mails and phone calls.

That followed a dispute over a property in Gersh's town of Whitefish, Montana, owned by Sherry Spencer, the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer, who earned national attention for shouting "Hail Trump" at a Washington, D.C., conference following Donald Trump's election win last year.

Anglin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lawsuit-hate-idUSKBN17K24D

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U.S. | Tue Apr 18, 2017 | 1:26pm EDT

[ck4829]

1. If that site was called the Daily Jihad, it would have been shut down ages ago

Both Dylann Roof and Joshua Ryne Goldberg posted there, but I guess it's OK to run around saying "Heil Hitler" instead of "Allahu Ackbar".

[Initech]

2. Cue the "we're excercising our free speech rights" argument in 3... 2... 1...

[Leith]

3. I Hope Anglin Serves Time over This

That is open and obvious harassment and threatening. Lock Him UP!