the feminist librarian reads

While this type of social media persecution isn’t unusual, online harassment is so rarely investigated by cops and prosecuted in court that the Gregory Alan Elliott affair represents a landmark case. On Friday, Ontario judge Brent Knazan released an 85-page decision that illustrates just how bananas it is to translate the criminal code to a social media property. It took Knazan three hours to read the whole thing out loud in front of a packed courtroom. At the end, he declared Elliott not guilty of criminal harassment. But first things first: “I begin,” he said, “with what Twitter is.”