Cyber Abuse Awareness

Updated with new items added: September 25, 2010 To anyone who Googles my name, "Monica Pignotti" it will become all too obvious that I have been the target of a cyber-abuser for more than a year now because of a stand I have taking against certain interventions for children that I consider to be dangerous. I am taking on a certain therapy guru that most people are too afraid to deal with and and he and/or his followers and supporters have managed to successfully intimidate a number of people into silence. Hence, I am becoming an informal expert at the kinds of tactics they use. In this posting I will be listing some of them. Some of the tactics are modernized versions of age-old propaganda tactics. Take negative events from a person's past, repeatedly highlight them and blow them all ouf of proportion, failing to note anything positive about the person . This is a well-known propaganda tactic. For example, many of the posts portray me as a "Scientologist" negle...

Update: Charly Miller's website is back up, thanks to the courage of Project DoD, who will not be intimidated by baseless threats. Another target of the same disinformation campaign I have been subjected to is Charly Miller. The reason for this is that Charly Miller has an excellent website on restraint asphyxia filled with solid citations and evidence on the dangers of certain methods of restraint. Her resume reveals that she is very highly qualified in her field. One of her webpages is about her views, as an expert on restraint asphyxia, on Ronald Federici's methods , as described in his book, Help for the Hopeless Child . To see the restraint method illustrated in Federici’s book, go to the book’s site on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Help-Hopeless-Child-Discussion-Post-Institutionalized/dp/0966710118/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258578762&sr=8-2 Click on “Look Inside” and search in the book for “SEQUENCE ONE HOLDING” and go to where this phrase appears...

One thing that has made this whole ordeal more difficult for me is when well-meaning people offer advice to me that is so far off the mark, that it only adds to the stress and isolation of the experience. Here are some things NOT to do: Do not assume that you know all about this phenomenon. No one does. This is very new and common folk wisdom about what to do (e.g. do not ever respond to attackers) might not be the best choice. There is no real evidence that not responding to a cyber abuser will make that person stop. It depends on the situation and what the person's goal is. In my case, the goal is to make an example of me and intimidate me from speaking out against this particular abusive therapist. My colleagues are also being attacked and they have responded very little, if at all. I am in a situation where I am damned if I do and damned if I don't. Whatever you do, do not respond publicly to the victim in a way that blames the person. However things may appear, remember th...