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A TWITTER TROLL BULLIED MY 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ONLINE, SO I FOUND HIM IN REAL LIFE.

A TWITTER TROLL BULLIED MY 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ONLINE, SO I FOUND HIM IN REAL LIFE. A Twitter troll, a basketball star, a t-shirt shop, a writer from the Boston Globe, and a pissed off mom standing up for her daughter converged in Central Iowa.      On a Sunday morning at a coffee shop in Ames, I was on my way to do what lots of people in modern America can only imagine doing: meeting with internet trolls to accept an apology.  Months earlier, these trolls had posted cruel comments about my 6-year-old daughter, who appeared in a viral picture with Iowa State basketball star, Audi Crooks.  What followed that day was typical of the internet — these anonymous trolls said despicable things, I asked them to stop, the trolls disrespected me, others joined me to tell them to stop, the trolls continued and then eventually moved on.  Because the Tweet was related to Iowa State athletics and the trolls appeared to be Iowa fans, I assumed that they lived in my commun...