The FBI, apparently having finished its investigation into Bubba Wallace’s garage door pull and looking for new dragons to slay, showed up yesterday at the home of a Trump-supporting former Twitter troll and took him into custody on charges of, as a press release from the DOJ puts it, “depriving individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”
The formal criminal complaint alleges more specifically that the accused, Douglass Mackey (AKA “Ricky Vaughn”), conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate persons in the free exercise of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution.” The rest of the complaint makes it clear that all of this supposed injuring, oppressing, threatening and intimidating was conducted in the form of memes. Mackey faces 10 years in federal prison for memes. We should note that Mackey did post plenty of anti-Semitic content and other offensive material. This may be part of what earned him a ban from Twitter several years ago, but none of the memes he posted, however offensive, should put him in line for a decade-long prison sentence.
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