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>>etc-ho+(OP)
This article is emblematic of everything wrong with "journalism" today. Regardless of what Garry wrote on Twitter (which I'm not defending), he didn't send the letters in question, which are the core of the incident. So some lunatic prints out a tweet and mails it to politicians at their home addresses, and the "journalist" spends a couple thousand words focusing on the tweet, and how the guy who wrote the tweet is rich.

Also, featuring the price of his liquor bottles (prominent in the first article about this by the same writer) is indicative of the level of pettiness involved. Maybe there's an actual story here, but this isn't it, and it's not clear that the story is more than "someone said something regrettable on Twitter".

>>timr+Y6
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...

Stochastic terrorism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

>>Tarrag+y8
I doubt this CEO had any intent to actually cause harm to these people, which is often what's implied by stochastic terrorism.

>>concor+O9
Seems like he was hoping to get his twitter followers to harass them in a manner similar to the way he did -- otherwise why tweet it?

Probably receiving death threats causes a lot of real anxiety (not just the PC snowflake kind). That's a lot better than an actual assassination, but it's not nothing either.

>>jmull+mi
> Seems like he was hoping to get his twitter followers to harass them in a manner similar to the way he did -- otherwise why tweet it?

People often say things just to express themselves rather than for any planned and considered reason.

I greatly doubt the plan was to cause harassment. The gains are extremely low and this could cost him his job.

>>concor+xT
> People often say things just to express themselves rather than for any planned and considered reason.

Sure, but you don't have to express yourself on twitter... you do that when you want to communicate something to all your followers.

> ...The gains are extremely low and this could cost him his job.

That's true of the tweet by itself. If sober reason was going to hold him back there would be no tweet at all.

>>jmull+j41
> you do that when you want to communicate something to all your followers.

Or you do it automatically and habitually. The brain to mouth filter and a brain to keyboard filter are similar, many people don't have either.