Curt Schilling on vile tweets to daughter: 'This wasn't a mistake. This is a crime.'

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jmotivator said:

The best part of this is he has only outed two of many. Now every sum'bich who thought it would be cool to flex their anonymity muscles on a teenage girl are crapping their pants not knowing if they are the next target.

This makes me smile.

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Didn't you read the article?


Shillings had long list of people and he gave them all a chance to apologize and I guess most of them did except for the two that he's made public.

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Moot said:

Didn't you read the article?

Shillings had long list of people and he gave them all a chance to apologize and I guess most of them did except for the two that he's made public.

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My understanding is there are more than the two who have yet to apologize. Why'd you have to be a buzzkill?

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I completely agree with everything that Shilling did in the aftermath of the comments that were made about his daughter.

But as something of a celebrity (maybe major, maybe minor, I don't know because I couldn't care less about baseball and know nothing about the guy) it was kind of stupid of him to "out" his daughter's choice of school on public social media while posting publicly available photographs of the girl.

Especially given the fact that, by his own admission, he's got something of a big mouth when interacting with his fans and followers and posting his opinions on the Internet.

Dumbass.

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Moot said:

I wondered that too. The article said he just did a simple internet search. But after I saw the tweets it was easy to see how he tracked them down because they left a lot of clues. And I must say...the sicko's deserved to be punished.

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Twitter is troll land. It should come as no shock.

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ocean515 said:

I agree with that also. However, I think the whole Facebook/Tweet thing is pathetic itself. There are scumbags out in the world who received the greatest gift when they could bully people anonymously. The greater lesson is to either avoid these sites altogether, or to grow thicker skin. There is no protection from scumbags on these sites.

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Sure there is. The OP of this thread is an example. Find them, out them, and explain to them that internet sexual threats come with real world consequences.

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cpwill said:

Sure there is. The OP of this thread is an example. Find them, out them, and explain to them that internet sexual threats come with real world consequences.

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That's one way to deal with it. The other is to grow thicker skin, or avoid them altogether and get to know someone face to face.

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ocean515 said:

That's one way to deal with it. The other is to grow thicker skin, or avoid them altogether and get to know someone face to face.

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Nah. You go after my daughter, I'm going to do my best to see that you regret it.

Think of it as a digital broken windows policy. When these punks get away with misbehavior online, it makes the more likely to misbehave elsewhere. Also, you are going after my daughter. That's going to hurt. You.

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jmotivator said:

My understanding is there are more than the two who have yet to apologize. Why'd you have to be a buzzkill?

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I'm sorry, jmotivator....I totally misread your post. Arg, I hate when I do that.

Now every sum'bich who thought it would be cool to flex their anonymity muscles on a teenage girl are crapping their pants not knowing if they are the next target.

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That makes me smile, too.

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cpwill said:

Nah. You go after my daughter, I'm going to do my best to see that you regret it.

Think of it as a digital broken windows policy. When these punks get away with misbehavior online, it makes the more likely to misbehave elsewhere. Also, you are going after my daughter. That's going to hurt. You.

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Don't get me wrong. I have a daughter. I'm with you.

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Declan said:

Twitter is troll land. It should come as no shock.

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Not sure who was more shocked, the dad reading the tweets....or the trolls after the dad contacted them. In this case, I think it was the latter.

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Moot said:

Not sure who was more shocked, the dad reading the tweets....or the trolls after the dad contacted them. In this case, I think it was the latter.

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Many trolls show a remarkable ability to usually feel entitled to harass or speak ill others yet not receive similar treatment in return. It's quite fascinating, if not downright amusing, to see them hold their tail between their legs when they are openly and frankly called out.

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Phys251 said:

Many trolls show a remarkable ability to usually feel entitled to harass or speak ill others yet not receive similar treatment in return. It's quite fascinating, if not downright amusing, to see them hold their tail between their legs when they are openly and frankly called out.

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Trolling might be a good indicator as to how some people in society would behave without any laws, rules or consequences (total freedom). I don't know if it's the anonymity or the obsessive need to be noticed....but there is something about the internet, Twitter especially, that just seems to bring out the stupid in even the most intelligent people. When one wrong 'tweet' can destroy entire careers....it's just mind boggling why so many people think they can behave differently on social media than they would in public. It's just bazaar.

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What I think some on here are mot seeing is the fact that he is about to send his daughter to college. She won't be at home anymore where he can somewhat protect her. She is 17 years old not 25. To this point Dad has driven off the bad guys. That won't be the case once she leaves the house. Now you have these tards talking some pretty bad stuff about what they would do to his daughter and he should just ignore it? There are several instances of Celebrity stalkers doing pretty bad things to their victims. Although she is not a celebrity, her dad is! No reason to think one of these idiots wouldn't try something stupid.

I don't blame him for outing them, getting them fired, tracking them down and beating the brakes off both of them. If the authorities can handle them and they apologize via twitter then great, otherwise I would just handle myself.

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jmotivator said:

So if some d-bag made vile comments to your wife would you turn to your wife and tell her to grow thicker skin or would you put a fist in the loser's teeth?

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Kinda comments like I've seen on the Internet? I'd make the mother****er watch me eat his children.