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I Am Turtleboy: A teacher turned blogger battles big tech censorship, threats, and political correctness to protect free speech and democracy Kindle Edition
I was a high school history teacher for 11 years and during that time I learned the hard way that my opinions were the wrong opinions. After getting an unpaid suspension for starting a blog called AidanFromWorcester.com, which expressed opinions on issues that the school did not approve of, I decided to create an anonymous blog that would act as the voice of the people – Turtleboy Sports.
Turtleboy started as a hobby but has grown to a website with millions of monthly followers and is now my business. I hire bloggers who pen under nom de plumes because anonymity gives people the freedom to express opinions that many others agree with, but are afraid to say out loud out for fear of consequences. Turtleboy is popular and has grown so quickly because we say what many other people are thinking.
I left teaching in November of 2014 after a blogger from Buffalo wrote a libelous blog about me, alleging that I sexually assaulted a woman in front of 60,000 people at a Patriots-Bills game. The blogger was successfully sued for libel, but so many of my students read it that it became impossible to teach anymore. After the school received hundreds of calls and death threats they offered me a full year’s salary to walk away quietly. I took the money and used is to turn Turtleboy from a hobby into a business.
Turtleboy has broken major stories that the mainstream media couldn’t because we have better sources. We’ve exposed corruption involving the Massacchusetts State Police and politicians that led to the resignation of the 4 highest-ranking members of the MSP. The blog has helped expose contractors and con-artists, drug dealing state troopers, brought criminals to justice, shut down a death factory of a puppy mill, reformed school districts, and exposed insurance fraud, non-profit fraud, sexual abuse, food stamp fraud, fake hate crimes, and many other stories that the mainstream media would never touch.
When I left teaching I felt liberated and free for the first time, but because our bloggers are unapologetic, brutally honest, we get a lot of pushback. We entertain by not only reporting news, but by using language that some might find unsavory. As a result outside forces have used various methods to try to silence the blog. Turtleboy has been the subject of countless boycotts. I’ve been unsuccessfully sued for libel many times; including by a former advertiser who was upset the blog didn’t endorse him for Mayor. I’ve gotten too many death threats to count, had “fuck you” keyed into the hood of my car, and been angrily confronted in restaurants. I’ve had a Facebook page with 112,000 followers removed for wishing people a Merry Christmas, and had 32 business pages taken down since. The blog has been blacklisted by Google AdSense, and my house and phone are permanently banned from creating Twitter accounts.
All of these things have combined to cost my business hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a couple years. But they will never stop Turtleboy because I refuse to censor and give up the rights that our Founding Fathers sacrificed their lives for because people who disagree with us use fear, intimidation, and economic warfare to silence us. When we self-censor we don’t contribute to public discourse in the public square, and in doing so we lose our democracy.
This is the story of Turtleboy.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 6, 2018
- File size15530 KB
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- ASIN : B07K8CNVYT
- Publication date : November 6, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 15530 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 332 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #449,123 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #52 in Censorship (Kindle Store)
- #201 in Biographies of Journalists
- #552 in Censorship & Politics
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willed tenacity, unshakeable constitution, & selfless determination to persevere, even in spite of both overwhelmingly-high amounts of odds stacked against him AND a surplus of perpetually-recurring, überexpensive and time-consuming setbacks in abundance. I fully support the mission of preserving and upholding democracy with the salvation of free speech, promotion of fearless opinion- sharing {regardless of whether or not other perspectives expressed perfectly align with one's own; never a factor of consequence}, and resolution to speak up on the behalf of all people unable or unwilling to voice their *own* mutual thoughts or feelings for any reason - anytime, anywhere, anyone. We all deserve transparency from media sources, just like individuals who publicly exhibit the kind of animalistic, abysmal behavior that'll doubtlessly mark you as a prime target for the widespread ridicule and shame which accompanies becoming Turtleboy-famous deserve to be sterilized and incarcerated at minimum.
WE ARE ALL TURTLEBOY. And we will NEVER be silenced.
I read a website everyday called “PinkTruth” a blog about the damage Mary Kay does to women. When the blog first started it was called, “MaryKaySucks” the blog owner knew in order to be taken more seriously she would have to change her marketing strategies — she changed the name to “Pink Truth” which the blog is still alive and going. I mention this because although I like the name “Turtleboysports” I am glad to learn Aiden wants to start toning down the language in the blog in order to become more marketable. Yes, TBS does expose a ton of corruption —something the Main Stream media won’t- but I never cared for some of the language on the blog. But it’s America- Freedom Of Speech and that is what this book focuses on; Aidan’s fight for Freedom Speech.
Believe it or not his critics who are so invested in shutting him down only made the blog stronger and got more support from the public.
The people who shout from the roof tops that Aiden isn't a real journalist are the so-called-journalists that are jealous of the stories he broke on the MA State Police, the RMV after that kid killed a group of bikers in NH, and so many others that ended up in "the Turtleboy graveyard". If you live in New England you should be reading his blogs on the daily as well as this book!
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It's great to get an insight into how TBS came about, how it has developed over the years and get a sense of where it is going. The future looks green.