Freedom of Tweets

[Luigi]

So there might be a thread on the Gregory Alan Elliot case but it recently got a lot of attention and support of prominent youtubers so I thought I'd make a thread for it. Cliffs: Guy got his life destroyed by an ongoing trial where he is being sued for disagreeing with feminists on twitter.

From the gofundme page run by his sons:

The Situation

In case you don't yet know the story, on November 21, 2012 our father, Gregory Alan Elliott, was arrested, jailed for 3 days, and charged with criminal harassment for essentially disagreeing with, debating, and calling attention to brutal cyber-mobbing campaign lead by a social-media savvy, political operative on Twitter. Two months later, he was charged with two additional counts of criminal harassment by two friends and colleagues of the original complainant. They accused him of also harassing them on Twitter during the same Aug 2012 - Nov 21 2012 time period, but for some reason, only came forward in January 2013. Interestingly enough, after the first two complainants took the stand during trial, the third complainant was pulled by the crown prosecutor literally the morning she was supposed to take the stand herself.

During the course of the trial, as we did our own investigation, lots of information was discovered that led our dad's lawyer, us, and many others to believe that a criminal conspiracy may have been committed to fraudulently charge our dad.

In court the complainants and the OIC admitted that he never said anything threatening or sexual towards them. Yet as a result of these baseless criminal charges, he suffered severe financial, professional, emotional, and psychological devastation. Shortly after getting bail on Friday Nov 23 2012, he was informed that after roughly 17 years working as a graphic designer, he was being fired from his job without cause. He received no official reason for his termination. But the fact that there were articles posted about him with his mugshots in a few prominent Toronto news media (written by admitted friends of the complainants) literally the day and days after he was arrested alleging he was a harasser, it seemed odd that he was fired at this time as well. He was 52 when this happened, and it was likely he would've worked that job until retirement at 67.

To make matters worse, because his bail conditions prohibited him from using the Internet and computers for the duration of the trial, he was unable to use the tools of his trade and has been unemployable since. Too date, he has paid $50,000 in legal fees, and owes roughly $40,000 more that he is unable to pay at this time.

And if this wasn't sad enough, the only reason he was able to cover his living and legal expenses over the last 3 years was because he received and cashed his pension from work. So, he's essentially been spending what was supposed to be his retirement savings on living and legal expenses since.

To say this has been devastating for him and our whole family would be an understatement.

https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/ ... pport-fund


The wikipedia article on the trial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrie_vs._Elliott

Article on the Freedom of Tweets movement supporting Elliot:

http://theralphretort.com/freedomoftwee ... -11022015/

Sargon's analysis of the plaintiff lol: