Falsely Claiming "Cyberstalking" as a Silencing Technique

[tammywammy]

I found this to be a pretty interesting article.

Falsely Claiming "Cyberstalking" as a Silencing Technique
I have been repeatedly accused by a GM commenter of stalking because I stood up to him multiple times. I've seen two other people make a similar claim in the past few days, for the crime of repeated commenting on GM sites, often with a demand to stop. Let's unpack this shit.

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In the case where I am supposedly stalking someone, I remembered a poster because that poster pissed me off. I responded to him, which pissed him off, so he remembered me. Later, I saw another irritating comment from him and recognized his name, so I responded to him. Because he recognized my name and my comment pissed him off, I am "stalking" him. Double standards much, dude? Oh also, pointing out a false equivalency means I can't take a joke (where joke is defined as something he meant but thought he said in a funny way), cause you know, humorless feminist blah blah whatever something something.

In addition to demanding that I no longer call out his problematic behavior, he is specifically doing so in posts to me. He is sending me messages to call me names and insist that I don't defend myself. He is commenting that he can say whatever he likes about me and I am disallowed to respond because he doesn't like me.

Sorry, Special Snowflake, but that's your privilege talking and you are not entitled to my silence, especially when you attack me.

http://groupthink.jezebel.com/falsely-claiming-cyberstalking-as-a-silencing-techniq-1504707694/

[LumosMaxima]

1. I've noticed this.

People are misusing the word entirely in many cases. I've seen people even accuse *themselves* of cyberstalking for merely checking a friend's social networking profile. It's totally absurd, since the whole point of putting up a profile is to share information that other people will read. If you don't want someone to read and respond to it, don't publish it online -- it's really that simple.

[freshwest]

2. I was shocked to see a printed high school telephone directory labeled 'Stalkers Handbook.'

This was the official list of student names, addresses and telephone numbers to keep in touch with each other. It was a little pamphlet published by the student paper.

Apparently, none of them thought it was creepy, but I sure did. From the article, I guess there are different meanings for the term stalking by different groups.