Twitter Fascists Try to Silence The Blogger’s Defense Team

This is the latest post in what I half-jokingly call The Kimberlin Saga^®.  If you are new to the story, that’s okay! Not everyone reads my blog.  The short version is that Kimberlin has been harassing me since last December, his worst conduct being when he attempted to frame me for a crime.  I recognize that this might sound like an incredible claim, but I provide video and documentary evidence of that fact; in other words, you don’t have to believe my word.  You only have to believe your eyes.  So, if you are new to the story, go to this page and you’ll be able to catch up on what has been happening.

So yesterday when we were announcing the charitable auction and raffle to help in my legal defense fund, I noticed that they created a twitter account for the Blogger’s Defense team called @BloggersDefense.

I knew the moment I saw it what would happen.  You see Twitter empowers its users to block and report people for abuse which makes the critical mistake of trusting its users not to abuse it.  If you get a sufficient number of reports of abuse—well-founded or not—an algorithm kicks in shutting down your entire account until a human can hear the appeal.  It is nice to deal with the spambots who come in on a regular basis, but it has been commonly used as a method of suppression of speech one merely doesn’t like.  We call this the Twitter Gulag.

You can read much more about it, here.  Now previously when Dana Loesch’s husband, Chris, was “gulaged” people started using the hashtag #FreeChrisLoesch.  So how about people start tweeting #FreeBloggersDefense?  Let’s show Twitter how we feel about this.

And please pass around the word about this auction and raffle.  Their purpose in doing this was to harm our ability to generate publicity for the auction/reaffle and the best revenge for this act of digital fascism is a full dose of the Streisand Effect.

And for once, can twitter punish those who abused this feature?

As for who did it, I won’t say that Brett Kimberlin is behind it.  In fact, I doubt this aging post-hippy dinosaur understands Twitter enough to be capable of doing personally.  Nor can I say Kimberlin ordered it.  But like when I was SWATted back in June, you have to believe that it was done by someone sympathetic to his cause.  Its nothing more than the principle of Occam's Razor.

And just like my SWATting, it's a sign of their desperation.

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My wife and I have lost our jobs due to the harassment of convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin, including an attempt to get us killed and to frame me for a crime carrying a sentence of up to ten years.  I know that claim sounds fantastic, but if you read starting here, you will see absolute proof of these claims using documentary and video evidence.  If you would like to help in the fight to hold Mr. Kimberlin accountable, please hit the Blogger’s Defense Team button on the right.  And thank you.

Follow me at Twitter @aaronworthing, mostly for snark and site updates.  And you can purchase my book (or borrow it for free if you have Amazon Prime), Archangel: A Novel of Alternate, Recent History here.  And you can read a little more about my novel, here.

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Disclaimer:

I have accused some people, particularly Brett Kimberlin, of reprehensible conduct.  In some cases, the conduct is even criminal.  In all cases, the only justice I want is through the appropriate legal process—such as the criminal justice system.  I do not want to see vigilante violence against any person or any threat of such violence.  This kind of conduct is not only morally wrong, but it is counter-productive.

In the particular case of Brett Kimberlin, I do not want you to even contact him.  Do not call him.  Do not write him a letter.  Do not write him an email.  Do not text-message him.  Do not engage in any kind of directed communication.  I say this in part because under Maryland law, that can quickly become harassment and I don’t want that to happen to him.

And for that matter, don’t go on his property.  Don’t sneak around and try to photograph him.  Frankly try not to even be within his field of vision.  Your behavior could quickly cross the line into harassment in that way too (not to mention trespass and other concerns).

And do not contact his organizations, either.  And most of all, leave his family alone.

The only exception to all that is that if you are reporting on this, there is of course nothing wrong with contacting him for things like his official response to any stories you might report.  And even then if he tells you to stop contacting him, obey that request.  That this is a key element in making out a harassment claim under Maryland law—that a person asks you to stop and you refuse.

And let me say something else.  In my heart of hearts, I don’t believe that any person supporting me has done any of the above.  But if any of you have, stop it, and if you haven’t don’t start.