“How Cyber Mobs and Trolls Have Ruined the Internet”

Newsweek has an interesting article entitled,

How Cyber Mobs and Trolls Have Ruined the Internet—and Destroyed Lives

And concidentally Chris Voss of The Chris Voss Show has written about a “Goon Squad” at Empire Avenue.

Over 5 posts on my blogs I documented issues with Empire Avenue, from their rogue volunteers, running a “wall of shame” on Brands, attacking Brands reputations online, not answering complaints, having a “goon squad” of endorsed volunteers attacking customers who complained, refusing to discipline internally thereby encouraging more attacks on Brands, etc. What I witnessed was the worst travesty in the annals of customer service I have ever seen. After a month of private discussions with EA to change things, I went public. Only then did they begin to change, but the attacks on me and others grew by their “goon squad.” In the end, I went to EA’s Angel Investor and EA had to shut down its Chat Room and Chat Mod “goons squad.” EA shamelessly has never apologized or produced it damning chat logs as promised by their CEO. This is one of those posts, you can read the rest by Search in the upper right for ‘Empire.’ Don’t play EA or if you do save your REAL money.

According to Newsweek,

Mayer’s experience is a classic example of cyber harassment and cyber stalking. Although definitions of these terms vary, cyber harassment is often understood to involve the intentional infliction of substantial emotional distress accomplished by online speech that is persistent enough to amount to a “course of conduct” rather than an isolated incident.

Cyber stalking usually has a more narrow meaning: an online “course of conduct” that either causes a person to fear for his or her safety or would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety. I will address the two forms of abuse interchangeably because they are accomplished by similar means and achieve similar ends. I will highlight important differences between them where such differences arise.

Cyber harassment involves threats of violence, privacy invasions, reputation-harming lies, calls for strangers to physically harm victims, and technological attacks.

And this is exactly how Nancy Abt aka Fancienanc and the “Goon Squad” of Empire Avenue have functioned.

It’s astonishing that Empire Avenue does this to their own customers, however.

And the abuse by Keith Gill has continued despite Kred buying Empire Avenue and changing the name to EmpireKred.

Have you been attacked on the internet by Nancy Abt or the “Goon Squad?”

If so, the CA DoJ and San Francisco DA’s office can help.