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19 Sep 2009 10:36

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U.S.: Austin’s police chief: I’m going after anonymous interweb trolls

  • A lot of my people feel it is time to take these people on. They understand the damage to the organization, and quite frankly, when people are willfully misleading and lying, they are pretty much cowards anyway because they are doing so under the cloak of anonymity.
  • Austin, Tx. police chief Art Acevedo • On his department’s decision to go after trolls on the Internet. On the Internet. Dude’s playing with fire by suggesting his department might investigate or even charge anonymous posters. Doesn’t he know what anonymous can do? • source