05/02/2020 2016 ONCJ 35 (CanLII) | CanLII “@SophieAnneB join those who’ve blocked #GAEhole . It’s much nicer after blocking.” Then, the Sysomos search showed, he mentioned Ms. Reilly’s handle in the exchange with @elleinad that I have reviewed in relation to Ms. Guthrie. @elleinad, who apparently had dinner with Mr. Elliott and whom he crudely propositioned and apologized to, consistently tried to reason with him on Twitter and criticized him for attacking people’s physical appearance on Twitter. He also tweeted Ms. Reilly twice on August 30 and once on September 1. One tweet was civil and appears to be a continuing Twitter discussion with others about calling out and trolling. The other two were nasty and insulting, one that used #TOpoli calling Ms. Reilly “a hateful bitch” who “enjoys ganging up on people who don’t deserve it” and saying that “her ass is still fat”. In another tweet directed at no one in particular, he called Ms. Reilly, Ms. Guthrie and two others “self-righteous Twitter bullies” and used #Twitter, i.e., a hashtag to discuss Twitter itself. Ms. Reilly did not recall seeing this latter tweet; she testified that she would probably personally not see it. For the next two months, the Twitter world received almost nothing from Mr. Elliott with Ms. Reilly’s handle, according to the Sysomos search, which revealed just two tweets. But 17 times in September, Ms. Reilly either retweeted about Mr. Elliott or tweeted with his handle at the beginning preceded by a period. In some of these she defended herself against Mr. Elliott, who had tweeted that she had stalked a Hollywood movie star at the Toronto Film Festival by referring to his body. His tweet is attached to her tweet, but it does not mention her handle. Ms. Reilly called it a subtweet, which refers to someone without using their handle. In several tweets, Ms. Reilly yet again made clear that she wanted Mr. Elliott to leave her alone on Twitter. Ms. Reilly was what she called signal boosting at this time. If people who followed her also wanted to chime in and tell him to knock it off, that was fine with her. She also said in one tweet that she had not used the tag #GAEhole for six days. She testified that she had used it sometimes, though not often. Mr. Elliot’s one reply to Ms. Reilly’s retweets, on September 13, was: “Nothing better to do? #obsession #sad @VeronikaSwartz @rachelmack @nataliezed @la_panique @ladysnarksalot The parody? I find it hilarious.” Someone, not Ms. Reilly or Ms. Guthrie, had created a parody account with a handle similar to Mr. Elliott’s. Ms. Reilly replied with three retweets about Mr. Elliott. Two of them criticized him for using #TBTB. All of them had his handle with a period before them, with her intention that at least all of his followers would see them. One read: “.@greg_elliott_ Stop using this hashtag to spew your self-aggrandizing, misogynistic bullshit. #tbtb”. An incident on September 10 led Ms. Reilly to be concerned for herself in the real world, as opposed to the Twitter world. Ms. Reilly and her friends were meeting in a place called the Cadillac Lounge, and some of them tweeted that they were there. Ms. Reilly recalls Mr. Elliott tweeting to the effect of “a whole lot of ugly at the Cadillac Lounge.” It is not clear how she heard about this, but it was through a tweet of which she could not “recall the verbiage”. Ms. Reilly did not find this tweet was physically insulting, just insulting, and thought Mr. Elliott might be present at the Cadillac Lounge. Though she had blocked him, she somehow came to know of his tweet. Although he could have known from her or her friends’ tweets that they were at the Cadillac Lounge, she concluded that the individual who was harassing her on Twitter, as she referred to Mr. Elliott, was potentially in the same location as she, and that that was “concerning”. When Crown counsel asked her what she meant by it being concerning, she replied that it was because she had no idea what his potential future intent could be if he had chosen to escalate the harassment from online to in-person. She felt uncomfortable and looked around the restaurant to see if he was there, using a photo she had of Mr. Elliott and his four sons that had been posted. Ms. Reilly had printed this photo for self-protection, to be aware of what Mr. Elliott looked like. She said she also removed her own picture from her Twitter signature and replaced it with a cartoon, but cross-examination demonstrated that that had nothing to do with Mr. Elliott or the Cadillac Lounge. But after she determined that Mr. Elliott was not at the Cadillac Lounge, she testified, she still felt tense because he appeared to be fixated on reading her Twitter feed. On September 11, Ms. Reilly complained to Twitter that Mr. Elliott was tweeting her or reading her feed even though she had blocked him. Referencing some of Mr. Elliott’s vulgar and hurtful tweets, she wrote that she was “part of a ladies group that meets Mondays, and he is ‘tweet eavesdropping/stalking’ this group, which also leads many of us to be concerned for our safety in real life, as this has now begun to feel like a real life threat.” file:///Users/nerissa/Downloads/Columbia CSV/R v Gregory Allan Elliott.htm 27/43