Why I Got Suspended

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In March, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg (@srhbutts) was the subject of a 1,200-word article I wrote, “Fake #GamerGate Victims,” and I did what I routinely do with my articles: Promoted it on Twitter with a quote and a photo. Another day, another dollar — routine work — and I scarcely gave it another thought until this morning.

Yesterday, I was locked out of my Twitter account for 12 hours. The notification didn’t explain why this had happened, but when I logged on this morning, I was instructed to delete one Tweet:

 

Holy Hell! You’re telling me that I was prevented from using my Twitter account for 12 hours — effectively the whole day — because of something I tweeted five months ago? This is insane!

Click here to see how many Twitter users have applied the word “pedophile” to Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg. Am I to believe that all of those accounts will also be suspended and required to delete their tweets about him/her? If so, does this mean that Twitter is engaged in protecting Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg from the consequences of his/her own irresponsible folly?

Nicholas/Sarah tried to shut down funding for the website 8chan.net, which had supported #GamerGate, by falsely accusing them of hosting child pornography.  However, he/she failed to anticipate the reaction, i.e., that the people he/she had attacked would figure out who he/she actually was, connect the dots, and expose Nicholas/Sarah’s unsavory background. It appears that “Sarah” had been something of a nuisance in various online forums circa 2006/2007, allegedly engaging in discussions about pedophilia and sex with dogs.

One of these discussions was about lowering the age of consent to 12, and Sarah said someone who had “a positive, fulfilling, non-abusive sexual relationship with an adult as a child are more likely to realize such relationships are not inherently abusive, and be more likely to admit they’re attracted to kids.” Sarah said that while “most people aren’t ready at 12,” this is not “a valid reason to outlaw sex at said age.” Sarah asserted that “most people” don’t understand “childhood sexuality,” because it doesn’t involve “full-blown intercourse” and therefore it is “inherently less dangerous and virtually impossible to lead to pregnancy, etc.” Sarah said “childhood sex play” is “nothing harmful” and that “what’s harmful is society pretending children are asexual.”

Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, I am not here today as a prosecutor. The question before you today is not whether Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg has peculiar or dangerous sexual proclivities. No crime is alleged against him/her, and if you wish to hire Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg as your babysitter, that’s your choice. This is not relevant to the case at hand, because I am not here today as a prosecuting attorney, but rather am here to defend the First Amendment right to free speech. This is a right that belongs equally to Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg as it does to me or you, but you see that Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg is determined to deprive others of their right to speak the truth.

Our system of justice protects citizens against harassment and defamation. Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg says he/she was wrongfully “doxxed” — her personal information published online in order to make her a target of illegal harassment — and, if so, this could be a federal crime subject to prosecution. (The Justice Department has prosecuted someone who engaged in such harassment against me.) Yet you, ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, can see as well as I can why Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg had inspired such hatred. He/she had attempted to deprive the proprietors of 8chan.net of their right to free speech and had falsely accused them of a very serious crime in an attempt to cut off their funding or otherwise drive their site offline. Whether or not you or I approve of the content at 8chan.net is irrelevant to this case, in the same way it is irrelevant whether Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg is sexually attracted to children. To the best of my knowledge, he/she never said that he/she had any such attraction, but rather Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg was merely saying that having sex with children isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You probably disagree with that as much as I disagree with it, but we wouldn’t be here today discussing this matter were it not for the fact that Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg used an Internet alias, “Sarah Butts,” in a Twitter campaign against 8chan.net.

It was this anti-free-speech campaign, part of a “Social Justice Warrior” (SJW) battle against #GamerGate, which (a) made “Sarah Butts” a public figure, and (b) inspired the question, “Who is ‘Sarah Butts’?”

Perhaps it is not necessary for me to explain to you, ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, why it is generally a bad idea to use an online alias to engage in such attacks. An ordinary person may take for granted their right to protect their privacy through the use of an online pseudonym. However, such an alias is unlikely to withstand the kind of hostile scrutiny a person attracts when they try to silence someone else, which is what “Sarah Butts” was trying to do to 8chan.net.

None of this was of interest to me. I had only occasionally written about the #GamerGate controversy, and knew nothing about 8chan.net. That peripheral Internet spat probably never would have come to my attention, except that Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg decided to pose as a heroic martyr and invite the world to his/her pity party:

I Set Out To Expose A Hate Movement In Gaming
— So They Set Out To Destroy My Life

Oh, right: Climb up on the cross, you pathetic troll. Parade your victimhood for your feminist “sisters” and claim that what has been discovered about you is “heinous lies” and “defamation.”

You don’t fool me, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg.

You did a DARVO — Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender — a common tactic of sociopaths when they are accused of wrongdoing. Deny the accusation, attack the accuser and pretend that you, the offender, are actually the victim. Create sympathy for yourself by pretending that you have been unjustly accused, and impugn the integrity of those who seek to hold you responsible for your actions. Try to hide the evidence of your wrongdoing, and attempt to silence those who call attention to that evidence, so that five months after I mentioned you on Twitter, I’m hit with a 12-hour suspension? You chose poorly. There is such a thing as a “Streisand Effect,” wherein your efforts to conceal a fact has the opposite result, creating unwelcome publicity for that which you had hoped to hide. If the allegations others have made about your past behavior are “heinous lies” and “defamation,” wouldn’t it be easy to prove that these things are false? Was there a case a mistaken identity? Are you, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg, the same Sarah who wrote so enthusiastically about “childhood sexuality”? If so, were your statements about having “a positive, fulfilling, non-abusive sexual relationship with an adult as a child” based upon your own personal experience?

Really, Ms. Nyberg, since your claims of social-justice martyrdom were published at Ravishly.com and at Huffington Post Women — attacking #GamerGate as a “hate movement” — perhaps the editors of those sites would be interested in your explanation of what you (allegedly) wrote about pedophilia in 2006/2007. Certainly, if you wrote an article explaining what inspired you to write that “childhood sex play” is “nothing harmful,” many people might be interested to read it. However, you refuse even to acknowledge your authorship of those comments, leaving us to suspect that you wish to avoid discussing your opinions on this subject. In fact, the effort to suppress this information about you, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg, led to me being locked out of my Twitter account five months after I called attention to it.

So run along now, you creepy freakshow. Go tell all your foolish friends how that big, mean right-wing “transmisogynist” is harassing you. Climb up on your cross again, and do everything you can to silence everybody who tells the truth about you. Go ahead. Try your smokescreening and deflection and every other sociopathic defense mechanism in your repertoire in an attempt to explain to your foolish friends why you don’t really need to explain what you wrote about “childhood sexuality.” Try every little evil trick in your evil little book, because there will be an Army of Davids to keep telling the truth about you, and no matter how far you run, you can never hide from the truth. Selah.





 

Light it up, my friends. Light it up like the Fourth of July.

 

74 comments

  1. I’d help but the progressive loons have made it so I can’t get a twitter account for very long. Even if it is protected .

    Stacy have you ever investigated just who the head of Twitter Safety is? She is a lesbian SJW Alison Shea aka Del Harvey. She was part of the vigilante train wreck known as Perverted Justice

    http://goo.gl/vaHetT

  2. Hah! How amusing. And yet they coddle a paedophile within their own midsts. Do as I say not as I do, once again. The only thing I knew of Shea offhand was being way-too-close friends with Harper and always running interference/deleting reports + she’d attended some tech con with her.

    https://archive.is/SbhLW

    Oh and, by the way, it’s not just paedophilia those screwballs get up to.

    Here’s Tauriq Moosa making a pro-necrophilia argument from 2012!

    When will they understand we wouldn’t hate them so much if they weren’t bloody hypocrites? I bet if Brennan hadn’t scrambled IP viewing, then we would see Butts’ IP is a frequent visitor to 8chan’s seedier portions.

  8. The five month wait is interesting. Given that with the 24 hour news cycle and the attendant diminished attention spans that causes, plus the zillions of outlets for all manner of stories, outrages, etc., one would think it would be obvious that these sorts of things blow over after a short time. Why resurrect it now? Is there some new angle which is bringing the original kerfuffle back into the public eye?

    Curious.

  9. Who knows? For all we know there is a backlog of pending complaints, and three months from now they’ll shut me down for something I wrote in June.

  13. One thing about the article annoys me: that you give even the slightest credence to Mr Nyberg’s claim to be female. He should be referred to with the masculine pronouns exclusively, and I would never use the “he/she” formulation; he is simply a he.

    He is, of course, completely male, but we all recognize that he was never a man.

  16. My Twitter account is basically screwed forever, and to my knowledge I never violated any actual rules (I read the ToU before posting a single tweet), and I’ve been suspended almost a month now.

    I unfortunately had the temerity to ask Brianna Wu if there was any truth to a Breitbart article on her, and if not, advised she sue for defamation, and I got a ton of crap about my question being harassment.

    If I’m not welcome back on Twitter, so be it, but I too have remarked on Nyberg’s pedophilic tendencies, so to see you punished for the same five months ex post facto is not only wrong, it only has further convinced me Twitter has become the hive of corrupt censorship of non-SJWs that Reddit has become.

  17. Can anyone flag a tweet? If so, my money is on 8chan, one of the sources of the #cuckservative meme. It would be a twofer for them, temporarily suspending the account of an active opponent of that meme on Twitter, while resurrecting an old attack on one of their most hated enemies.

  18. I have no animosity toward the transgendered, while at the same time I cannot support their fantasies in any way. Theodore Dalrymple:

    Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

  19. It would also require them to be smart enough to figure all that out– which may or may not be true.

  21. Re: Billboards “stopping traffic”. Suuuuure they did. This is the problem when people have no actual, real accomplishments, but instead define themselves solely through deviant sex acts. And that stuff is less marketable job-wise than they might think.

    Most employers want their employees to do work, rather than just act gay.

  22. Maybe, but we would already have seen it and gotten a nice, warm fuzzy feeling from it, or perhaps a hearty laugh. And no calling those things back.

  24. I don’t think it’s matter of smart at all; more like sleazy. The internet equivalent of yellow journalism.

  25. Indeed, because nothing that psycho deviants do can be considered a “crime” regardless of how nauseating, insulting, bigoted, or morally reprehensible it is. But normal, decent people commit crimes against humanity by simply existing.

  27. I’m laughing on the outside, but crying on the inside….no, wait, sorry. That was just gas. I’m actually laughing inside and out.

  29. My proposal for the Fourth Law is “SJWs always eat their own,” because they thought-police each other as much as anyone. However, it’s a corollary of “SJWs are never satisfied,” so that might be a better candidate.

  30. Scalzi has to be nervous.

    He saw how Whedon was shoved under the bus after Age of Ultron, Myers is suffering a massive uprising as his attack dogs turn on him & Benson, and the Hugo winners are revealed on the 22nd.

  31. Perhaps only one law is required: SJWs are ignorant, narcissistic jackasses, and everything else just flows from that.

    SJWs are what happens when adults act out.

  32. Considering that I think that Myers is a giant sphincter who narcissistically believes he’s somethin’ he ain’t, imagine my surprise when I followed your link and discovered that I actually agree with him on one single point. I’d have dot-replied and told Nicholas the Whiner to shove it, end of discussion.

  33. I hope you learned from this that the only reasonable question for Brianna Wu is “Are you on the rag, or what?”

  36. Two things: One there are no reasonable questions for Wu, only blind sycophancy from someone who tells Wu all the proper things.

    Second, based on the available information on Brianna Wu, I have no reason to believe Wu is capable of menstruation.

  38. I’m aware. Just wanted to say I have no reason to believe Wu would ever have a valid libel suit, because while I don’t have any hatred for the transgendered, I do hate hypocrites, and I’m convinced Brianna Wu is the gender version of Rachael Dolezal.

  39. “My proposal for the Fourth Law is “SJWs always eat their own”

    Is that what keeps them obese, ignorant, and out of shape?

  41. Well, if they had SJW tattoos on their foreheads then sure, but the purpose of the laws is to both predict their behavior and recognize them by it.

  45. The only hate movement in gaming is third wave feminism. It is an ideology of the hateful, the naive and the mentally ill. Anyone who supports it is a degenerate. Every single one of its most precious doctrines is a falsehood meant to excoriate men, heterosexuality and whites. White privilege, rape culture, male gaze, the Bechdel Test, cultural appropriation and other dehumanization theories come solely from gay radical feminism. It is a cult.

  47. The Bechdel Test:
    1. Quit making me look things up.
    2. It’s (amongst others referenced in [ugh] “wiki”) a demand criteria, not a “test”.

  48. Someone needs to come up with a distributed hosting competitor to Facebook. They went SJW a long time ago, and I’m afraid the censorship is intolerable.

  49. Let me suggest, one of the things which separates civilization and barbarism is a shared reality. That is, a common view of the world. What we’re seeing on many fronts, of which the “socially constructed gender” is one, is an attempt to require that everyone accept every view of reality imaginable and that requirement is enforced via various forms of mau-mauing. The most prevalent enforcement mechanism is invoking the status of “victim.”

    The first defense, of course, is refusing to play. Bruce Jenner is a dude no matter how high the heels on his shoes are or how many awards shows he headlines.

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