So it's been over two weeks now since I'd heard anything about the stalker urging people to try and get my patreon account taken down with an ever-growing pile of baffling lies and I honestly thought he'd finally abandoned this strange obsession, but nope!
As usual I have no idea what "platform" I'm supposed to have, why this person insists I'm a journalist, or who any of these other people he's obsessed with even are or why he thinks they're connected to me. Yet here he is just, cold calling random people?
I also really cannot stress enough that every time I mention this, people make the mistake of trying to confront this stalker directly and getting nothing for it but being added to the pinboard:
https://twitter.com/hachx0/status/1246191290716282880… DO NOT engage. Do though perhaps consider warning any of the various reporters/queer rights groups/random people you know who this creep is shouting all this nonsense at if you know any of them, to stem the tide of the damage done to all these people by this.
And particularly stem this:
https://twitter.com/hachx0/status/1246451926327230464…
In my experience one of the most dangerous things a stalker like this can do is weaponize followers to spread lies about their targets for them. It creates a fog of war where damning statements gain credibility. If you look at any of this stuff in the original context, you don't need anyone to explain how it's all complete BS from an obsessed stalker. Everything speaks for itself quite nicely. But when some random follower says "hey, everyone should block Secret Gamer Girl, she's feeding puppies to kittens" because they just blindly trust this creep that floats around, coming from someone with no clear reason to say such a horrible thing without good reason (people forgetting that "sharing unverified gossip feels helpful" is a reason to do a thing is part of what makes Twitter such a hellscape),so people with better judgement echo that, lending credibility and so on and so on until it just becomes a "well-known fact" that "everybody knows."
Similarly, we have the tactic of trying to get this crap to go viral on other sites here:
https://twitter.com/hachx0/status/1246452367639425025…
When this sort of thing is contained to twitter it's easy to look into context as I stated above, I tend to inevitably learn when a new volley of attacks is coming in (I have this stalker blocked, but he keeps tagging me, so I see the reply-all responses all these random cold calls get form others), and at least on a theoretically level, it's easier for me
to report the harassment. Twitter, again, on a purely theoretical level, has strict rules against users harassing other users that they might some day choose to actually enforce, but as a general point of policy, nobody ever lifts a finger when someone uses social media site A to direct attacks against an account on social media site B. Realy that kinda takes things full circle here too since this particular stalker only became aware of me in the first place because there was a hot minute a few months ago where the talk of the day was about Graham Linehan created his own sad little twitter clone on which he could shout blatant lies about me without fear of any punitive action (sparking a bunch of speculation on why the hell THAT creepy stalker was so obsessed with me of all people)
And personally, I lack the ability to even make a facebook account from which to report harassment for a shot at seeing justice, because when nobody was looking, they changed their policy from account creation being so easy people who never registered had ghost accounts made for them to this horrifying system requiring more forms of ID than getting a passport, and even beyond that, they have some weird discriminatory policy where they just decide for themselves that some people's names are too "weird" not to be fake.
But again in practice I don't think in 6 years of constant stalking and harassment I have EVER had twitter act on any report I've ever filed, except maybe when the one bigot who was bragging about being filmed assaulting a trans person half her size, after a year of her stalking me. So, if anyone who isn't on twitter's auto-reject-all-reports list wants to take a stab at reporting... really every single thing quoted in this thread, I'd appreciate it a lot. Like this one:
https://twitter.com/hachx0/status/1246458817665273857…
This creep keeps ranting and raving about "business partners" and "platforming" and "promoting" when the only one of these half dozen names and handles he's throwing around I even recognize is Linehan's, and I don't think any reasonable person thinks some horrible bigot ranting and raving about me being "a big ugly perverted bearded man and a nazi" (paraphrased slightly because I really don't want to look the quotes up) while linking to a dedicated stalking site with strong links to violent terrorism can honestly be qualified as "promotion."
And... OK that seems to be today's major action items against me. Again, please report as much as you can. And there's more targets
And again, the focus with all of this is just so nakedly violent. How does this person make their money, and how can that be weaponized?
https://twitter.com/hachx0/status/1246475321756585987…
On which note, hey, it's really super great to see this stalker continuing to be so determined to cut me down when the whole industry I rely on for the occasional scrap of freelance work is shuttered until this pandemic is over and I've got this letter about pulling the plug on my food assistance benefits because I'm currently completely unemployed (which is apparently a thing now?)
... and my cupboards are honestly starting to get pretty bare again. I know I've asked this before, but is there any sort of legal recourse I have about this sort of crap that won't cost a truckload of money I don't have or get me doxxed for my troubles?
Restraining orders aren't really enforceable here I don't think, suing for libel requires a lawyer and I'm fairly certain a more substantial platform for the libel than someone's twitter account. Am I just screwed, barring this person finding my address and showing up in person?
