Troll
Troll
”
— Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt
you.”
— unsatisfying parental advice
The tale of Weev's life, even before this particular chapter begins, is
bound up with the terrible power of words. Weev, worse known as
Andrew Auernheimer, is a notorious internet troll serving 41 months
for hacking and identity theft, despite having done neither of these. I
don't mean that he is innocent —Weev is in no way innocent — but that
the things he did were neither hacking nor identity theft.