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Mr. Elliott is believed to be the first person in Canada to be prosecuted for criminal harassment via Twitter.
He and Ms. Guthrie, a prominent feminist and activist, met online in the spring of 2012 when she advertised for someone to do a free poster for an event she was organizing for witopoli, the Women in Toronto Politics group she co-founded.
Mr. Elliott responded; they even met once IRL (in real life), for dinner, where she says now she recognized immediately a “creepy glint” in his eye but nonetheless continued to have a professional relationship with him for a short time because she was hoping for that poster.
Plus, as she put it once Wednesday, with a weary sigh, “We live in a world that forces women to second-guess those feelings…‘Did I really feel creeped out?’ So I second-guessed it.”
Interestingly, Ms. Guthrie considers feeling creeped-out a “form of fear”.
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I swear to God, this absolutely HAS to be a misplaced Onion article.
Whatever the legal test is for abuse of process, this proceeding absolutely must meet it. If it doesn't, change the test.
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