cyberbullying

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  susannahsummer · Member · Jan 20, 2016 at 6:11 pm

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  Hi, for several days, my blog has been attacked by a group on fetlife.com. They are stealing material from my blog posts and posting in threads on their website.
  They are doing this to cyberbully me.

  On Sunday, pulled everything off my blog but they are now using cached views. Yesterday was pretty quiet but now today, they seem to be active again.

  Can you help me? I have spoken to my local police dept. and they are calling this a hate crime.

  I am fearful for my family’s safety. This group has been known to stalk and harass people in real life whom they first attack on the internet.

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  toniaslimm · Member · Jan 20, 2016 at 6:28 pm

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  Dear susannahsummer,

  WordPress.com’s policy says the following:

  “If your copyrighted material has been used without your permission and in violation of the law, please submit a formal DMCA notice by following the instructions found here: http://automattic.com/dmca.”

  See the following link:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/

  I have tagged this for staff help; hopefully you can get some help.

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  susannahsummer · Member · Jan 20, 2016 at 6:38 pm

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  Thank you. This has been extremely hurtful to me and I was hoping to deter them by pulling everything off my blog but they are revving up again.

  My local police dept has referred me to the FBI office in Seattle. They are definitely cyberstalking me.

  I will follow your advice and look forward to getting more help

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  toniaslimm · Member · Jan 20, 2016 at 6:40 pm

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  You are welcome.
  It is sad that there are people out there who can be so hateful.
  I hope you are able to get everything worked out and soon.
  Good luck!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2016 at 8:09 pm

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  @susannahsummer
  
  @toniaslimm

  The site you refer to is not hosted by WordPress.COM and our Terms of Service Staff cannot help you with any copyright violation on sites that are not hosted by wordpress.COM.

  Be clear in the fact that any DMCA complaint must be made to the web host that hosts that site.

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 21, 2016 at 9:24 pm

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  Hi @susannahsummer, sorry to hear that. This site isn’t on our servers, but I was able to trace them back to softlayer.com (edit, looks like Timetheif had that too) . Can you try getting in touch with their support?

  Also, the law enforcement may be able to advise on whether you should remove content, but I want you to be aware there’s an option to make a post private (on the post settings), or even make an entire site private if needed:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  I hope that helps!