It was just seven months ago that local blogger M@ joined the District haters over at Why I Hate D.C. In that time, M@’s very first post on the blog—which detailed a fantasy jog, rape, and murder on the Memorial Bridge—has inspired hundreds of anonymous comments threatening M@’s rape and death.

Last night, M@ was finally taken out of his misery. In a blog post published at 9:51 p.m., site administrator Dave Stroup wrote, “Due to a variety of reasons, I must report that M@ is no longer a contributor at why.i.hate.dc.” He made one of those reasons clear: “the moment that this site becomes associated with rape fantasy and all of the other bizarre circumstances surrounding some posts, is the moment something has to be done.”

M@ was the first to comment on the post.

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Spl@: Why I Hate D.C. blogger unnerved by Web threats

On March 5, 2009, Why I Hate D.C. blogger M@ received the following anonymous comment on one of his blog posts: “you’re going to go down hard, little bitch boi,” it read; “brutal bone crushing pounding of your skull between my boot and the pavement. Hot blood spewing everywhere.”

Even by Internet standards, that’s pretty nasty—illegally so. What could M@ have possibly done to prompt a death threat?
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