SATURDAY, JULY 07, 2018
Blind Item #6
That reality troll company that is for hire for put upon reality stars is at it again. This time they have been hired by the besieged reality star from the south to go after people who go after him in comments of tabloids and other online forums. One of these days, they will go too far and the people behind the company are going to end up in jail.
The #VToo movement is making progress.
Many will testify in the upcoming lawsuit.
T-Rav
Too easy
TRav. This can’t come soon enough.
AATT working on T Rav’s behalf. Misleading and heavily biased articles that may or may not have any basis in checkable facts.
#VToo is NOT about Thomas. It’s about the troll farm.
Are these the same people that were hired to after Margaret from Real Housewives of New Jersey?
Do they just look through the client’s social media accounts and start targeting people? Or does the client tell them who to harass?
The person hiring them is just as guilty as the trolls they hired and should be punished also!
Sorry, dinosaur here. A personality who exposes his/her life on tv, internet, print, and in public gets upset when someone comments negatively on it?
Wow. Just wow.
Easy money always comes at a price.
Wow! So they harass people who comment on the subject?
That is so gross. These people choose to expose their lives on reality tv and then get upset with the consequences of that decision.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
#Vtoo. Does V have a special meaning? Or it is just in reference to the troll farm? Just clarifying in case I missed something.
ALL this buildup for Thomas. Many layers to this onion of a fiasco. Something new every week it seems.
Could this troll company come after one of us if we’ve left a negative comment about their client? Am I understanding this correctly? Is that legal? Wouldn’t
we be protected by the 1st amendment?
Not protected against any and everything. You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. You cannot libel someone. You cansay whatever you think but the person could file a suit against you if they wanted.
Thanks Muffin.
I don’t think even he has that much money. Not many people have positive things to say about him…in fact I don’t think I have read any. and he has to prove it is not true probably not possible. Nevertheless, I am watching what I post so the threat is working.
The 1st Amendment only protects you from being arrested for giving your opinion. This was put into the Constitution because those who spoke out against the King of England were thrown into cells. It was against the law to disagree with the King’s rules. It doesn’t protect you from people who don’t agree or don’t like your opinions. You can’t threaten other people which could be a crime. You could be held liable in a civil case if you are spreading lies and a person can prove damages because of it. And just like TT is the end all/be all of her site, the administrators can decide what you can post on their sites, i.e. FB, IG, twitter.
Ah yes, AATT, a full service media company.
If you don’t like the right reality star, they’ll make sure you’re punished.
Thomas Ravenel isn’t the first reality star to use them. Isn’t that right Siggy Flicker?
Ugh- I could not stand her either.
Maybe I’m out of the loop but what is #VToo? What does the V stand for?
Yeah me too. I’ve never heard the V part either.
Yeah, I haven’t heard of #VToo or a lawsuit either. I’ve searched the term and links to this Blind Item and TT’s Twitter show up, but not much else that I could find by way of explanation. TT are you at liberty to confirm or not that some bloggers have had enough of the offending blog lifting their material and printing it without proper accreditation? Is that the gist of #VToo? If so, I hope the offending blog gets fined heavily or prosecuted.
The other piece I don’t quite get is about the people allegedly getting paid to harass those who have unflattering things to say about Thomas. Before I was disinvited from there for expressing my revulsion for TRav there were several ‘usual suspects’ who would jump in and insult me. I assumed that it was the fawning author using several screen names in the comments in order to create the illusion that Thomas actually has fans. And since most posters there use Disqus there is no way for them to know the identity of the posters. Now I am wondering if they are harassing people who use their real names on Twitter. If that is the case I would press charges if someone dared to come after me. Is my imagination running away or am I close?
I signed up and used Disqus on a very small hiking blog and it slowly took over most of my accounts. I had to disable it to regain control of my other accounts.
this is so meta tt and I wuv it
I’m so confused. I’m old school, so I HATE “keyboard cowboys.” If you’re too much of a pus to say it to someone face, or using your real identity, then stfu. That goes for commenters and troll farms. If you can’t hang with the big dogs, find a porch
Do we all have access to the people we see on tv to comment to them face to face? Don’t they put themselves on tv for us to watch and form opinions on?
Yes they do, but they are using their true identity, are you? For Jane Smith to be attacked by beachbum2073 is not fair
And being paid handsomely while doing so by choice. Nobody is forcing them to show their lives on tv.
It’s not about the people on TV, at least lately. You guys don’t seem to understand what they do. Perhaps you should ask Luzanne Otte. But you can’t ask her because she is not on social media or TV yet they continue to troll her. And it is not about online bullying it is about calling your place of employment, your job, your family and harrassing them. Now they are going after Shira Weiss and her family, friends and places she works.
Any more comments here about how people deserve this will result in an automatic ban. Point. Blank and the period.
I was definitely not referring to Luzanne’s bullying. I meant people judging people like Kathryn or T-Rav. I clearly have no idea what this blind is about!
Thanks TT
Shirt deserves none of the crap she’s getting.
#vtoo
Who’s Shira?
Does “V” stand for five? Five Bloggers willing to stand together to file a complaint/lawsuit against the offending site? If so, you guys are our heroes! 🙂
I think I know what TT means by #vtoo – I believe it is a reference to V!nn!e Leonell!-Sp!na, the disgraced and disbarred attorney widely understood to be responsible for LeAnn Rimes’ attacks on Brandi G and Siggy’s attacks on Margaret J. She also has ties to the site which shall not be named. I think TT is saying V has been engaged by TRav and Ashley to go after Kathryn and her supporters.
Just my educated guess!
Thank you, Susan. I am sure that TT does not want to address the V question point blank due to the crazy troll that she (allegedly, cough cough) is.
Life is too complicated.
Holy Crap! Just looked up the above mentioned. That is one crazy mother f-er!!! Shame on whom ever hired him!
AATT
#VToo – Vincenza Leonelli S.
#ConvictedFelon – Brandon C King loves to ‘troll accounts’ and luvs him some Siggy F, Leann Rimes as well as Joanna Krupa…..
These are some mean peeps!!!!!
Can someone please explain how a troll farm works?
Do you pay this firm 10000 and then they create fake accounts to troll your “enemies” online?
Does it employ real workers sitting in cubes in an office park trolling sites daily or does one person create fake accounts all day, such as sweetnursefromCA who then spike these sites with troll comments?
I was wondering that too. This is all so intriguing to me.
Just ‘Google’ it………… 🙂
Just passed thru Ravenel SC. No love lost for the patriarch per the locals.
Internet Fixers? Media hit-men to the stars (or anyone w/$$$)? Social Media is The New (lawless) Frontier and I sincerely hope #VTOO is successful in terminating the ruthless/brutal site. Good luck guys!
Right?? I wish I could walk away.
They used to call it dropping dox when it reared up on irc chat and then the chans. It can be used for good and bad situations. I have watched trolls gather information on pedoph1les and drop the dox to LE. I was once part of a website who had admins in Switzerland who helped track down a suicidal woman in Arizona. Of course no one is paid for those bits of info. Making money off of dropping dox is filthy lucre.
Ok, then drop dox. I would love to see it all.
I thought it was called “doxing” someone.
A friend of my daughter was theeatened with it until a friend of mine accessed the doxers info and made it public.
Shut him down quickly.
I’m so confused. This reminds me of the crazy cat ladies posts where I also was totally in the dark and beyond confused. I have no idea what #VToo means and I thought the only trolls were Ashley and Thomas going after Luzanne, Patricia, Katherine and maybe others with fake twitter accounts. My opinion is Thomas is a pervy douche and Ashley is a psycho. If anyone wants to sue me, go for it. As my grandmother once said “You can’t get blood out of a turnip”.
“Dropping the DOX (releasing the documentation)” is a troll harassment technique of broadcasting a private user, enemy, or blogger’s sensitive information (i.e., address, phone #, work place, family/friend connections, social security #) into the social media and using it to extort/frighten them. Certain sites get paid for this. 🙁
Thank you for explaining
I Googled. I read. I’m shocked. It takes courage to shine a light on this issue, however blindly. Thanks, TT
Thanks. I have already been DOXed so they have nothing on me. There is literally nothing more they can do to me. They will be going to jail. People know who they are. It’s a matter of time.
Just unimaginable cruelty and lack of any social conscience. So happy for you there is progress in shutting this down at last and some retribution for those so carelessly harmed. Hang in there till it is over.
This may sound like a stupid question but how can you protect yourself? When people sign up for your forum how can you tell if they are legit or part of that harassing company? (Or just a crazy person?!!) This stuff is bat shit crazy!
Tamara- I have watched these trolls in question attack strangers for the past 5 years. This punishment is a long time coming. I am so glad sites like yourself are now getting involved. They went after some really great people and other bloggers and this needs to stop. They think they are invincible so filing criminal charges is exactly what they deserve.
I was clueless. Thank you and I’m sorry for what you’re going through.
Vincenza Leonelli-Spina harasses people as a bitter disbarred attorney with BPD & too many petty vengeances and axes to grind. She harasses many people NOT in the public eye.
Twitter account is suspended. Is that recent?
Thank you to all who informed us of this Dropboxing. I am absolutely not with the times. Lol!! I really enjoy getting all caught up on TT, and everyone’s thoughts and insights. I just found this not to long ago. Sorry that you’ve been dealing with this. Hope all goes well.
Have a happy day! 😁
Had something very odd happen last night. Woke up to a large amount of tweets that a few adults were making fun of me retweeting, and how I won’t talk, but kept laughing at me because I will retweet. Just felt weird and invasive. They had Mr. Rodgers video saying “wont you be my neighbor.”They mentioned #Vtoo ,as the reason, (which I have no idea personally why I would be a topic to make fun of.) It’s never happened before and I really was confused.
I won’t be bullied into not retweeting, and don’t even know why it was entertainment for the evening by these adults. So weird and childish, I was dumbfounded. Hope it was just a one time thing. I’ve never blocked anyone or had anyone in a group say I suppose, insults. I guess this is what can happen on social media. Fortunately, I have avoided anything close to this.
Yes. Don’t engage with them at all. I saw they were targeting you. It’s incredibly childish for people in their 50s and up.
I noticed this, too, that they were targeting you. But I didn’t realize what was going on, or that it was directed at you, CherylB. I’m actually still confused. They were talking about someone who only retweeted things without ever tweeting their own thoughts. Your name was included within their tweets, but I didn’t know it was you they were targeting. Does that make sense? I was trying on my own to figure outwhat the “v-too” thing was about and somehow landed on the tweets. So, I guess they are targeting you in order to punish TT ? Because you innocently retweet about TT’s blog ? Wow. Hang in there CherylB. xo
Thank you Vinnie Victim. 😕
Tamara, you were WAY ahead on this one. A little paper in Charleston posted about this yesterday. According to their article, Thomas and Ashley are included in the lawsuit. If that’s true I hope Luzanne gets all of Thomas’ money (and shares with Kathryn), Ashley goes back to emptying bedpans and that awful site gets shut down forever.