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Too bad he doesn't go into how he managed to track the 9 people down who he called out. Was he able to do it because he is a famous baseball player and has the
by pmorici 12y ago
Too bad he doesn't go into how he managed to track the 9 people down who he called out. Was he able to do it because he is a famous baseball player and has the resources and connections to make it happen or is it something any normal person on the street can do to stand up for themselves?
- lizzard 12y agoThis is someone anyone can do, or at least give it a shot. Have a look at this article on how to investigate identity online. It gives some thought to risk assessment and ethical behavior in responding to situations like this. https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/investigation-online-gathering-information-to-assess-risk https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/investigation-online-gat...
- cpncrunch 12y agoAlso, if they are actually posting something that is criminal, you can report it to the police and they can very easily track the person down.
- ceejayoz 12y agoIt's remarkable how little Internet trolls do to conceal their identities. I see amazingly bigoted stuff posted under real names on the local newspaper's comment section.
- lambda 12y agoMost of these people, I'm sure, had their real name on the account, or had their account linked to from some page with their real name, so Googling for their handle would easily find it. At that point, as he mentioned, many of these people were college athletes, so their names would also show up on rosters and various campus newspaper accounts of games. While it is possible to harass anonymously if you try, it's pretty likely that many of these people didn't even try; they just didn't think and said the first thing that came to mind that they knew would get a rise out of Curt Schilling.
- Frondo 12y agoWhat's kind of chilling and awful is the thinking apparently at work: "I want to get a rise out of this guy, so I'll make repeated menacing/disgusting sexual remarks about his teen daughter." On what planet is that ok?
- lambda 12y agoI have no idea; no idea at all. This is just such a foreign thought process to me, and absolutely unacceptable in civil society.
- EpicEng 12y agoI heard him on Dan Patrick a day or two later. He said that he used nothing more than Google to find these people (correlating Twitter handle to real name).