Twitter troll fired, another suspended after getting named...

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Link to article : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/20...d-after-curt-schilling-names-and-shames-them/

You know that old advice about dealing with trolls by ignoring them, instead of feeding them the attention they want?

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling doesn't, apparently.

Instead, this is his strategy in the first inning of a game called mess with my daughter and I'll knock you clear out of the ballpark: naming and shaming on his blog.

This is how it started: last week, Schilling - a professional ball player for 22 years - proudly tweeted his congratulations to his daughter, 17-year-old Gabby Schilling, who'd been accepted to Salve Regina University, where she'll play softball.

A variety of responses came in.

The first batch were predictable, with responses like "Can’t wait to date her!"

Then came some schoolboy nastiness, and it spiraled down from there - with mentions of rape and other vulgar acts, in one of those one-upmanship troll contests that are so miserably common on Twitter.

The contest also sprawled into personal tweets, texts and email to "more than one party," Schilling says.

A father's vengeance when his daughter is threatened is a mighty thing.

The protective father in this case had, within 1 hour, tracked down the names and schools of the antagonists, as well as the sports and playing positions of 7 trolling athletes.
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Predictably enough, some of the trolls' friends told Schilling to "lighten up", given that their buddies were "just joking."

Why, they asked, would Schilling say things that might "ruin someone’s life”?

Schilling's response was apt, and it was chilling: he listed links to news articles about dozens of cyberbullying-prompted suicides, including that of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick, 15-year-old Amanda Todd and many other teens who were taunted on Ask.fm.
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Respect to Schilling. Bullying, in whatever form it is dished out, slowly destroys the victim.
 
Respect. You can mess with me and troll all you want. (Sticks and stones, whips and chains etc.)
But you touch my kids and I will go biblical on your ass. Its a father's perogative.

And they forget - we made this world they play in. Its ours, and we know that deep down everything is stored.
 
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Well played sir, some people take it to far, with little regard for the effect their words can have on the people that they are directed at.
 
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