Saint Julie Bailey and the pseudonymous trolls

Saint Julie Bailey and the pseudonymous trolls

If it's not enough for the people of Staffordshire and beyond that St Julie Bailey received a CBE (just outranking the keeper of the prime ministerial parting), they find that their right to free speech about this award is being impugned. Is it really newsworthy that some people dislike a public figure? The most outrageous comments came from a conveniently short-lived and pseudonymous account, which might make some suspicious as to whether the troll was actually an Cure-supporting agent provocateur rather than a Cure critic. After all, the evidence for the supposed hate campaign was pretty flimsy.

There are several pseudonymous trolls who do the Cure dirty work on Twitter. The identities of some of them have been revealed on Twitter, for example @GiletGirl. The unifying feature of all the pseudonymous trolls is their resort to dirty tricks when they lose an argument. As reported on this blog and elsewhere, people associated with Cure have resorted to blackmail in the past to try and silence critics. The end seems to justify the means for many of those associated with the Cure campaign.