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This, right here, is a huge part of the reason I completely abandoned the toxic cesspit that is Twitter.[1] This never happened to me personally, but I saw it happen enough times, to famous, semi-famous, and non-famous people alike, that it just plain disgusted me, and I wanted nothing more to do with it.
"we argued for hours"
And that was Mr. Abramson's big mistake.
Of course, you can't and shouldn't just let these fuckers get away with constantly libeling you, but if you try to confront them about it, they win. If you don't try to confront them about it, they still win. I don't know what is the solution to this conundrum.
Lawsuits, I guess? But those take time and money, and if you (especially if "you" are a semi-famous person like Seth Abramson with as big a following of haters and trolls as you have actual normal, human, non-shitstain followers) sued everyone that libeled you on Twitter, you'd be doing nothing else but that for literally the entire rest of your life, and you still wouldn't handle even a tiny fraction of them (and that's assuming you actually won all your cases, which is not a certainty).
[1] - Aside from getting back into reading Seth Abramson threads, of course, though those are usually just direct links from the ThreadReader site, and I rarely venture beyond that anymore, these days.
"we argued for hours"
And that was Mr. Abramson's big mistake.
Of course, you can't and shouldn't just let these fuckers get away with constantly libeling you, but if you try to confront them about it, they win. If you don't try to confront them about it, they still win. I don't know what is the solution to this conundrum.
Lawsuits, I guess? But those take time and money, and if you (especially if "you" are a semi-famous person like Seth Abramson with as big a following of haters and trolls as you have actual normal, human, non-shitstain followers) sued everyone that libeled you on Twitter, you'd be doing nothing else but that for literally the entire rest of your life, and you still wouldn't handle even a tiny fraction of them (and that's assuming you actually won all your cases, which is not a certainty).
[1] - Aside from getting back into reading Seth Abramson threads, of course, though those are usually just direct links from the ThreadReader site, and I rarely venture beyond that anymore, these days.
