Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin faces deplatforming via bankruptcy after judge awards $4.1 million in lawsuit
newsdepo.com
While the national conversation about ridding social media of white-nationalist and other far-right-extremist content focuses around “deplatforming” such voices, the more traditional route for combating such material—suing the bejeesus out of the peoplNeo-Nazi Andrew Anglin faces deplatforming via bankruptcy after judge awards $4.1 million in lawsuit
While the national conversation about ridding social media of white-nationalist and other far-right-extremist content focuses around “deplatforming” such voices, the more traditional route for combating such material—suing the bejeesus out of the people who inflict harm on innocents in the name of spreading their hate—continues apace. A federal judge in Columbus, Ohio, last week awarded $4.1 million in damages to radio host/comedian Dean Obeidallah, a Muslim American, in his lawsuit against Andrew Anglin, publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Anglin’s site had published a series of posts in June 2017 accusing him of masterminding the terrorist attack against an Ariana Grande concert a month before. As Obeidallah detailed in the suit, the day after he had published a piece at The Daily Beast calling out Donald Trump for refusing to use the words “white supremacist terrorism,” Anglin began a campaign of harassment against him in which he urged his readers to “confront” the writer. He also published a series of fake tweets allegedly written by Obeidallah celebrating the attack and claiming responsibility for it. Read more