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Martin Shkreli suspended from Twitter for targeted harassment of a reporter

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Its ironic because Lauren Duca, the reporter he harassed has said repeatedly its okay to harass ivanka trump in public.

Harassing people is wrong period.

Really? Repeatedly? So, I'm sure you can produce a citation to this effect?

Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13351993

The former pharmaceuticals head had direct-messaged Lauren Duca, a freelance writer, on Thursday to ask her to be his “+1” to Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Duca rejected the offer, tweeting an image of the exchange on Sunday with the comment: “I would rather eat my own organs”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmyC_ar_mc

In this safespace culture, apparently everything is harassment now. She could have just blocked him. She spent an entire article bashing the president elect, then when she gets criticized for it she calls for help from Twitter's Jack.

We'd better get used to this. The leftist media got a shock, that despite they bashed Trump 24/7, Hillary couldn't score the elections. So instead of taking a step back and reinvent themselves they've gone full throttle on their failed agenda.

I hope the market will speak, just get ready to hear the suppression of 'freedom of the press' while they're struggling to have any followers. I consider myself left-leaning, but I'm super tired of what they're pushing for years now. It's also super worrying that they seem to have zero answer to Putin's worldwide right-wing media.

> they bashed Trump 24/7

They paid much more attention, TV minutes, column-inches to Hillary's emails than Trump's many, many scandals.

I really dont see how this can possibly work in Twitter's favor. Do they not understand that Twitter is comprised pretty much completely of people sarcastically poking and harassing each other?

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