This was astounding -- Jillian York, the "Internet Freedom Fighter" lady is *calling for a man to be fired from his job due to his legitimate, protected speech on the Internet*. She whistled to her pals in the Anonymous storm-troopers and they made something of an "op" out of this and began bullying and hectoring this fellow and hounded him into removing his post. That's how they police content on the Internet.
Not only is she openly calling for this acknowledged misogynist and politically-incorrect fellow to be fired, she's doubling down and saying that's okay to do so in her job as a program officer for "freedom of expression" at Electronic Frontier Foundation. Are no grown-ups going to see to this problem?!
It's absolutely outrageous, and it's why I keep pushing back against these Mitch-Kapor-founded-and-funded groups because they are entithetical to freedom of expression, even as they cunningly grab the concept as a cover for their copyleftist political struggle for power. The nature of this guy's content isn't the issue. Yeah, we get it that it's gross and stupid. Anything called "How to Rape a Woman" is by definition going to be awful.
But unless you can find that it means some incitement to imminent violent action, it gets to stay under the First Amendment and you don't get to solve the problem by harming his livelihood and exposing his privacy -- it's like they are running a libel suit in reverse.
I'm not even sure that this speech, while disgusting, falls afoul of whatever ISP or blogging service this guy has -- in any event, after the fuss over the post, he removed it. Now another conservative blogger has written about it -- which I stumbled on, I had no idea. He thinks Jillian is a "feminist" -- I beg to differ in my comments, below:
Oh, Jillian York isn't a feminist at all. She's a hard leftist pro-Palestinian "Internet freedom fighter" who is highly selective about which rights she fights for in her private activist life and her public role as a program officer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She's hardly a feminist, in fact. I first began debating her when I was appalled at how she dismissed the very real sexual assault of the American journalist Lara Long on Tahrir Square. She did so like a good little leftist because it would mar her efforts to portray revolutionaries as better than they were and because she thought no one should ever criticize Arab men -- for her, that mandate trumps any feminism she might feel -- which she very selectively applies. When a Washington Post commentator questioned Al Jazeera's silence on this appalling attack (it didn't fit *their* narrative of reality, either), Jillian York dug in and kept defending ALJ.
Her attack on this writer isn't so much about feminism per say, but about wielding the sword of political correctness to silence debate on the Internet. It's about establishing that this gang of "progressives" get to decide what the speech boundaries are, not by any legal principle but "just because". This "freedom fighter" who will fight to the death for some Palestinian blogger will block or ban people like me who question anything about them or her in terms of inciting or condoning violence, and she'll actually gloat over the threat of a man with loss of employment because of his questionable speech. It's really creepy, given how much power and money EFF and its related Mitch Kapor-supported organizations all have, i.e. Free Press.
As a blogger who is critical of EFF, the open source movement and Anonymous, I've been viciously attacked by Anonymous lately over the Steubenville story. I supported the victim of rape and called for just prosecution, but I definitely didn't endorse the vigilante tactics of Anonymous. I was viciously harrased for exposing their methods and just kept documenting them -- they're pious about the rape victim in Ohio whom they think they're helping (although they were the ones not only to out her name but also give the video of her humiliation far more views than it would ever have had if they hadn't become involved). They subjected me to the most foul-mouthed and awful abuse, heckled me with all kinds of threats and falsehoods, put creepy videos threatening me on Youtube, and doxed my private information. Anonymous are the footsoldiers for WikiLeaks, OWS, and this sort of vicious politically-correct attack on speech.
Here's the tweet discussion -- and note that his highly influential copyleftist with more than 27,000 followers instantly gets 16 retweets from her fans.
Jillian C. York
@jilliancyork
I wonder if this @realmattforney has a job. Because he won't after his employers see his "how to rape women" blog: http://mattforney.com/2013/01/22/how-to-rape-women-and-get-away-with-it/ …
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@jilliancyork @realmattforney But it's " satire and is not intended to be taken seriously." Also when did that become an excuse for bigotry?
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@jameslosey @realmattforney Lawful, sure, but I'd still prefer this guy get fired from his job.
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@jilliancyork @realmattforney I certainly wouldn't hire someone like that, or want to work with them
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@jilliancyork @realmattforney I also think it's absurd that painting revolting comments as satire or humor is somehow an excuse
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@jilliancyork I like how he calls everyone retards and pansies then asks for the benefit of the doubt
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@jilliancyork But he seems like such a nice guy: http://mattforney.com/2012/06/04/young-white-female-needed-for-companionship-and-sexytime/ …
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@AsherLangton Even if it's intended as parody, it's poorly done and not funny.
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@jilliancyork @realmattforney @verylemonade know what’s just as bad and possibly even worse than the original article? his “apology”.
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@jilliancyork Very consistent with your position as "Director for International Freedom of Expression."
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@AnatolyKarlin It is, actually. I protect people from governments, not criticism.
James Losey
@jameslosey
Alex Trebechdel
@drunkpiano
Asher Langton
@AsherLangton
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