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But what about the amateur troll? The regular guy who makes an off-color joke and, in the fog of his own cleverness, hits “send”? Or the young troll-in-waiting, steeped in the comment sections of frat-boy websites, who types horrible things but might someday come to his senses?
This is the dilemma of Curt Schilling, the former Red Sox ace and would-be gaming entrepreneur, who took a famous stab against trolls this week after he posted a proud tweet about his college-bound daughter. In life, this is what dads do. On the Internet, it’s an invitation. Sure enough, reply tweets came, scraped from the bottom of the human-discourse cesspool, sexist and gross and apparently meant to be funny.
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This would come as no surprise to, say, female campus activists and feminist critics of video games. Schilling saw it, rightly, as the stuff of affluent, entitled, idiotic jocks, plus an Internet run amok. He ranted on his blog and called out the worst offender, a community college student in New Jersey. He urged his readers to “have at it” at some others.
And he got action: That college student got expelled, and a part-time ticket seller for the Yankees got fired. Schilling was everyone’s hero this wee
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Curt Schilling outs Yankees confederate who allegedly posted lowclass tweets border on daughter
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Schilling fights back against Twitter trolls
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling didn’t just lash out at Twitter trolls who responded offensively to his congratulatory note to his daughter, he shined a spotlight on the growing problem of cyberbullying and even identified some of the individuals who attacked his daughter on social media.
This all started with this tweet from a proud father Sunday:
Schilling said he expected some inappropriate responses, but nothing like the some of the vulgar tweets he received directed as his daughter.
“I expected the trolls,” he told Boston sports radio station WEEI on Tuesday morning. “The one kid kind of came at me and said, ‘I can’t wait to take your daughter out.’ Kind of borderline stuff, which again, I expected. I’ve been on the Internet since, I started playing on computers in , so I understand how it works and I knew there would be stuff. The stuff that they did, that is not bad or vile, it’s illegal. It’s against the law.
“When that started -- again, I thought it might be a one-off, but then it started to steamroll. And then [my daughter] started to get private correspondence and then I said 'OK, this needs to get fixed.’ This generation of kids doesn&rsqu