05/02/2020 2016 ONCJ 35 (CanLII) | CanLII Whether his behaviour was misrepresented or not is debatable, as he was arguing with others and they with him. But there is a basis for his belief that he was the target of a calling out and a campaign to discredit his reputation. Unknown to him in early August, Ms. Guthrie had met with 15 others, including Ms. Reilly and those with the handles @rachelmack and @popeshakey, to find a way to make Mr. Elliott’s behaviour stop. Known to Mr. Elliott was that many people on Twitter were confronting him about his behaviour. Reading the tweets that precede his tweets, only for the context of his, sheds light on his use of Ms. Guthrie’s handle during the time specified in the count regarding Ms. Guthrie. Here is another representative example. On August 12, before Ms. Guthrie retweeted six tweets that contained Mr. Elliott’s handle, somebody named @canadiancynic tweeted to his or her followers in the Twitter world: “Apparently, one @greg_a_elliott, Toronto artist with four sons, is totally creeping out women on Twitter. I’m sure his sons are proud of him.” Since the text mentioned his handle, Mr. Elliott would have been notified. According to the tweet as expanded when opened on the internet, he would also have seen Ms. Guthrie’s avatar beside the retweets and favourites count at the bottom of it, and would have seen her retweeting it. But Mr. Elliott tweeted to @canadiancynic, not to Ms. Guthrie: “And so the attacks begin? Bring in my family too? I’ve been documenting all of this organized harassment, lawyer contacted.” This generated another tweet at Mr. Elliott from @jkosuch: “Honestly, @greg_a_elliott: Knock it off. You’re not doing yourself any favours. Stop acting like a misogynist and stop harassing women.” Mr. Elliott would have been able to see Ms. Guthrie’s photo beside the retweets and favourites of this tweet. Mr. Elliott did not testify, as is his right, but the prosecution brought his voice into the case by introducing his tweets; it had to, because that is also his alleged crime. These tweets are evidence that I must consider when deciding what he was doing, what he intended and what he knew. In a tweet on August 15, Mr. Elliott asked: “Does @amirightfolks believe THIS? ‘When someone’s tweeting offends people, it’s an indication they need discipline and training.’ #TOpoli”. Ms. Guthrie replied with tweets, though not to Mr. Elliott, saying that she was taken out of context. She also tweeted, but not to Mr. Elliott, and obviously referring to their exchanges over the summer, that he was offering rides for wrong reasons. He must have seen this, because he included it in a tweet in which he told his followers that 20 women whom he had helped thought she was crazy. Ms. Guthrie sent other tweets about Mr. Elliott, but not to him. One more example demonstrates the context of Mr. Elliott mentioning Ms. Guthrie in a tweet. I choose it because it is directly about her and has vulgar language, so it could be seen, standing alone and as listed in the tweets produced by the Sysomos search, as harassing. Ms. Guthrie tweeted: “That GAE calls me ungrateful for not accepting rides from a strange man speaks to how little he understands of rape culture.” Another person, @mkronline, who must have followed Ms. Guthrie or somehow seen her tweet, tweeted: “What does GAE mean? Google has failed me.” Ms. Guthrie answered: “Toronto man Gregory A Elliott, sexually harassing women on the internet since lord only knows when.” Yet another tweeter, @True_Tory, tweeted to Ms. Guthrie and @mkronline: “Funny thing is, he’s dating my mom and is INCREDIBLY nice to her. A sweetheart, really. #GettingCreepy”. Ms. Guthrie answered, cautiously: “I’m not sure if I should take that seriously.” And then (ironically), “It IS the internet after all.” @True_Tory, from his name (Joe Tory) apparently a male, answered: “He makes me call him StepDaddy, but other than that it’s good. Really. #Help”. It appears that True_Tory may have been teasing and taunting Mr. Elliott. But Mr. Elliott seemed to know True_Tory, and tweeted: “So. Now you RT my interaction w/women? You know that I know this woman? What is @amirightfolks fucking problem? Stop it. #TOPoli.” Mr. Elliott’s tweet appears in the table that Det. Bangild produced, standing alone, that is, without reference to the tweet that preceded it. Not only was Mr. Elliott facing the reference to his sons, someone had posted a parody account of Mr. Elliott with a similar handle. Ms. Guthrie had been tweeting with her friends and laughing at Mr. Elliott. As file:///Users/nerissa/Downloads/Columbia CSV/R v Gregory Allan Elliott.htm 22/43