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A Truly Vile Troll

The blogosphere is, sadly, full of stalkers and trolls and other mentally and emotionally damaged people who use the anonimity of the net to maliciously give form and direction to their derangements.  Many, many prominent bloggers (and some not so prominent bloggers, such as yours truly) have had to deal with persistant stalkers, trolls, impersonators and other social misfits with too much time on their hands and obsessive natures.

Well, one of the very worst had to be pudgy, beady eyed Eliot Stein, a morally miniscule man who lived through his hatred of others.  In particular, Stein hated and obsessed over Cathy Seipp, a talented, witty and much beloved columnist and blogger.  This obsession, which had gone on for years, was going to have to end because Seipp was dying (she passed away on March 21 of this year) so Stein, obviously feeling that he was losing a part of himself, lashed out one last time.  As Seipp lay dying, he wrote a hateful, rambling post in Seipp's name.  Seipp was beyond Stein's ability to hurt by this time but he did manage to lash out at her teenage daughter (who he seems to blame for his various inadequacies) and Seipp's many, many friends.

Some say that the problem with internet relationships is the lack of physical contact that is essential to healthy human relations.  This observation is, in many respects correct.  After all, before the internet provided the safety of distance and relative anonimity to the maladjusted misanthropes of the net, a vile act like publicly defaming a good person as she died would have been met, at a minimum, with a punch in the mouth.  In today's world, Eliot Stein will probably escape with his teeth intact.  In today's world all we can do is point out the fact that he is a vile piece of filth and hope that the word spreads.

Posted by: Jheka at March 28, 2007 11:48 | link | comments (1) |
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#1  28 March 2007 - 15:03

 

I often look around Penn Station and think "This is who's on the internet" and it's very, very scary.

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