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Reged: 03/08/05
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Re: Identity-stealing sockpuppet troll finally crosses line, gets just desserts
09/13/15 03:22 AM
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> edit: Maybe the Australian personae were supposed to be a diversion to make law
> enforcement search for him in the wrong place.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well.
I found a couple of articles on his arrest in the Australian press:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/unmasking...20150909-gjil47
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australia...20150911-gjk852
Found both of them via Reddit, which is in absolute chaos right now over Goldberg's arrest and exposure as high king of the sockpuppeteers. Not surprisingly, he apparently had a whole bunch of Reddit accounts, including some of the site's most infamous right-wing and left-wing trolls.
ETA: The first of the two SMH articles I linked explains why Australia, in the perp's own words:
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To Potaka and McMahon, before his arrest, Goldberg explained why he had such an obsession with Australia. It was, he said, the most "anti-freedom of speech country in the English speaking world". Australia's left was "unspeakably stupid".
He pointed to the controversy over the Abbott government's failed attempts to amend Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, and the "massive outrage" that occurred when Attorney-General George Brandis said, "People do have a right to be bigots, you know". In the US, where freedom of speech is sacrosanct, nobody would have been as outraged, he said.
Edited by AWJ (09/13/15 03:51 AM)
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