Curt Schilling hits back hard at Twitter trolls

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I looked and couldn’t find a thread on this, which surprised me.

Short summary is that former baseball great Curt Schilling tweeted a congrats to his daughter for getting on a team and Twitter trolls tweeted vile sexual and violent stuff at him. Curt got even and outed several of them and from what’s been reported so far, at least 2 of them lost their jobs

Kudos to Curt for fighting back at the trolls, but I wonder if he has put his family and himself in danger of actual violence from some of these people, especially the ones he outed? Plus, I fear for someone innocent to get “outed” and lose their livelihood. Vengeance can feel good but wreck havoc as well

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Bravo to Curt.

In my experience Twitter terrorists are pussies in real life.

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I am, on the one hand, glad that the scumbags who attacked and threatened his daughter lost their jobs, and I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. On the other hand, I wonder whether the good guy won in this case only because he’s a celebrity, and there’s no way to punish cretins like this most of the time.

Some days I think we should just delete the internet.

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Even that wouldn’t work – you’d have to delete the world. :frowning:

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Honestly speaking… I have no idea who Curt Schilling is, what he is like, or anything. But reading about this, I can only say – “Well Done”.

I would have done the same, although (probably) after identifying the culprits I would have paid them a visit for a friendly talk. For certain values of “friendly”.

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Celebrity swings both ways. The phone hacking scandal in the UK a while back only picked up steam when it was revealed that newspapers were hacking the phones of murder victims; when it was celebrities, nobody gave a shit.

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Good for Schilling, those trolls got everything they deserved.

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Jay and Silent Bob did it better years ago.

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Truth be told…probably.

But even if that’s the case, a victory for good is still a victory right?

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You should put quotes around “jobs.” One had a part time job selling tickets at Yankee stadium. He has worked a total of 18 hours. The other one is a college student who lost his one hour a week college radio show.

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I think Schilling is a first class creep, but yeah, those trolls got a little of what they deserved.

My bigger takeaway from that story, and the attached excerpts from what they tweeted was…

What the fuck is wrong with people? Who takes an innocent post about his daughter and her involvement in a sports team, and turns it into shoving a baseball bat into her cunt? Seriously? WTF? God damn.

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Their jobs weren’t much, but thanks to the internet never forgetting, these slimy little fuckweasels will have this hanging over them wherever they apply for employment.

Good.

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Jesus Christ. I tried to go to the link but it just popped up a huge video and I can’t play videos here at work. What the hell is wrong with people?

I too am glad they got fired. Unfortunately they still probably won’t see anything wrong with what they did.

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AWESOME.

I hope he’s an inspiration to others.

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Of course not. They will remember it as “the time that dick baseball player got me fired because he couldn’t take a joke.”

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(…or suspended from school…) True. Their takeaway will be that you shoud only troll or cyberbully those people who do not have a retired millionaire celebrity relative who has the will and resources to come after you.

And maybe, “OMFG Dude, you mean I’m not anonymous? This can be tracked?” :rolleyes:

Schilling is often quite the obnoxoid himself, but in that case people can flame him and he can take it and deal back; this, OTOH, I can’t blame him for feeling it had to be smacked down hard.