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		vermontdevil on March 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life Similar case is happening to the two tormentors of Curt Schilling (a former baseball player)'s daughter. He tweeted congrats to his daughter for going to college. Predictably some of the replies were nasty. He went after two and doxxed them. Now these two will bear the result of what went down. https://38pitches.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/is-it-twitters-fa... I suspect this will happen more and more.

smackfu on March 5, 2015 [–]

"Nasty" seems like an understatement, and it wasn't like they were hiding behind anonymity. So I have little sympathy in that case. You say terrible things on a twitter account in your name, directed at someone else, it might come back to bite you.

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