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Travis Brown is famous for outing "libsoftiktok" (much to Tucker Carlson's on tv ire) and other far right and anti-trans hate speech influencers.

I can see how a certain type of person would hate him, but i think he's a hero.

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Travis Brown worked for Twitter and almost certainly had access to personally-identifying information on @libsoftiktok that he used to dox her.

You might think he's a hero, but I'm not sure you'd like it if the situation were reversed, and rightwing tech workers abused their position to expose your online identities because they disagreed with your political opinions.

it was way after he left and he showed how it was done. i dont remember the details but there was a clear public trail of breadcrumbs. zero inside knowledge needed. you should do your research before making such wild claims.

i would never post inflammatory hate speech anonymously so the reversal isn't possible.

And who defines what is hate speech?

From my understanding, LibsOfTikTok just reposted 'fringe liberal' content without comment, no?

So I'm not sure how that's hate speech. Did they later resort to calling names or something?

Yes, you’re right. At that point the videos were simply reposted without comment (which achieved her political aims all the more powerfully). She does provide commentary now her account has been restored to Twitter but I wouldn’t describe the commentary as hateful or inciteful.

I think the people she shines a light on are the ones we need to worry about as a society.

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