Trenches Labs: How #TwitterGulag Works Part 2 – Seeing Active Blocks and Sweeps
In our prior post in this series we replicated a Reply Trap for sending an account to TwitterGulag. If you are unfamiliar with TwitterGulag and how Twitter activists use the platform to silence opponents you should read that article first. For those familiar with TwitterGulag and account suspensions, that post showed just one of the [...]
#OpShoqTheMonkey results in B/R Attack
The piece we published last Friday regarding our attempts to test the block/report for spam feature on Twitter certainly got quite a response, to say the least. To begin, the Lord of the Flies himself felt it worthy of a tweet. And then, on Saturday, this showed up in my @ column on Twitter as [...]
#OpShoqTheMonkey : Testing @dickc’s Claim About #TwitterGulag
For some time now, conservative users of Twitter have been well aware of the Twitter Gulag, the term created to describe unjustified suspensions of conservative accounts, usually done by a small but effective group of opposing users. Now, it’s to be expected that the perpetrators of this silliness and their supporters would deny it’s existence. [...]
Rauhauser Recap
It’s been a pretty action-packed week here at The Trenches, huh, kids? Jumping back and forth, seamlessly, between the misdeeds of the Matt-stermind behind #StopRush and the intimate (cough, wheeze) connections to everyone’s favorite sociopath, Neal Rauhauser. Oh, and the “ladies” in between. Yep. Fun times. Consider this article a place-holder of sorts. Something to [...]
Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) Releases a Statement in Response to “The ‘Ladies’ of Stop Rush”
It didn’t take long. Three days after The Trenches shed light on some of the ladies involved with Matt Edelstein’s (aka @Shoq) Stop Rush movement, at least one of the ladies is distancing herself from the association. This is perfectly understandable; indeed we applaud such an action considering the incidents of questionable legality we’ve uncovered. [...]
Matt Edelstein and #StopRush Employed Brett Kimberlin’s Pal Neal Rauhauser As Their Private Investigator
The Trenches published a post yesterday containing various unedited excerpts from an illegally recorded phone call between Matt Edelstein, and a man still only known to us as “Randy” in the recording. In this post there are a couple of excerpts wherein Matt discusses a private investigator that was employed to research Randy. Remember how Matt [...]
The “Ladies” of Stop Rush, The Left’s Effort to Silence Conservatives
Irony is fun. My favorite kind of delicious irony is watching self proclaimed “feminists” declare themselves independent of men while simultaneously allowing themselves to be puppets of a man’s agenda. The females of Stop Rush are brilliant examples of this. They apparently need a real man like a fish needs a bicycle but are happy [...]
Will The @Shoq Inner Circle Tell The Truth?
I just sent the following email to @Shoq and nine carefully chosen members of his inner circle: Hello, Some of you know who I am. To those who don’t, I’m writer who previously wrote for The Huffington Post and more recently became a protegé of the late Andrew Breitbart’s. I’m asking any of you to comment on [...]