Gay troll

Around Christmas Day, Karl Krause and Daan Colijn started receiving emails from their fans, telling them their pictures were being used to promote pedophilia in several viral posts on Twitter. You are not pro-pedophilia. I know that. Krause and Colijn are gay travel bloggers who tell their followers of gay-friendly and LGBTQ-owned businesses and communities throughout the world.

They had no idea their faces were being used to promote an idea they found abhorrent. The account then tweeted messages promoting pedophilia. The account successfully spread across Twitter the deliberately defamatory idea that pedophilia is an acceptable part of LGBTQ life.

They took the fake message seriously and used it to suggest that the LGBTQ community supports the sexual abuse of children. Various efforts to tie the LGBTQ community to pedophilia have been linked back to 4chanincluding the creation of a fake rainbow flag for Gay Pride Month that supposedly was designed to show acceptance of pedophilia.

Or does he think the person tweeting this is serious? The vaceyi account used strategies that have become common among efforts to spread misinformation and propaganda on social media, building up a small following by tweeting pro-LGBTQ hashtags and retweeting gay and lesbian aid organizations before sending the pro-pedophilia messages.

Krause said he and his followers repeatedly reported the vaceyi account using his identity to Twitter, which insisted he provide proof of his identity. The troll later changed its profile picture to a stock photo of two black men kissing. Twitter rules do not allow the promotion of child sexual exploitation.

The company's rules also bars impersonation and hateful conduct. We are aggressively taking action pursuant with our policies. Plante, a psychologist and professor at Santa Clara Gay who has studied the psychopathology behind pedophilia for more than gay years. It has to do with access, impulse control problems, and other kinds of psychopathology.

In the meantime, Krause said this experience has emboldened him to continue his work, showing spaces gay travelers can go troll harassment through out the world. We try to tell people that we just want to be treated equally. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

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