Meanwhile in Finland... (The story is in Finnish)
The day after the US presidential election someone makes a Tweet in his personal account: "20 minutes before the closing time a dude steps in with a Make America Great Again cap in his head. I wanted to spit in his burger." The account is anonymous except the owner's first name, Eeli.
A couple of days later someone posts a thread about the tweet to Ylilauta, the Finnish version of 4chan, asking for help in reporting Eeli to his employer. The board members get to work and successfully dig out Eeli's full name, employer and background. He is a transman working in a Hesburger (Finnish fast food chain) restaurant so they start spreading his phone number and dead name around outing him publicly as a transsexual. Three people tweet to Hesburger complaining about his tweet and use his dead name instead of his current, official one.
Sebastian Tynkkynen, the chair of the Finns/True Finns/Perussuomalaiset party's youth organization tweets asking about sources. He makes a post about this in Facebook whining about feminists' double standards and uses naturally Eeli's dead name. He also claims all the info is openly linked to Eeli's twitter account.
Meanwhile Eeli, his friends and people who made supporting tweets to him are targeted by a transphobic hate campaign. Eeli changes his phone number and applies for security measures for his personal information in the magistrate. Hesburger and Eeli terminate his employment contract with a mutual agreement causing Ylilauta to celebrate Hesburger "firing" him.
A tabloid writes a story about this using only Tynkkynen as their source with no mention about the hate campaign. He says he published the story in Facebook because Hesburger didn't respond to his tweets. Without all the details the tolerant feminist conspiracy theoretics would distort the truth so he had to share everything. He also says that an employee has to think about how they represent their employer in the social media.
The tabloid is notified about Tynkkynen's lies and they add a small notice to their story that Tynkkynen's claims about the information being publicly available can't be confirmed.
The internet trolls acting like sociopathic assholes is one thing and Finnish trolls worshiping Trump is depressing. A politician turning this into a publicity stunt is fucking despicable.
Everything you need to know about Tynkkynen as a person: before his political career he was known for crapping his pants in Big Brother and he is a "former" homosexual thanks to conversion therapy. He is a shameless douche whose political strategy involves being as outrageous as possible.
Edit: Something kept bugging me and I realized have to correct myself: I'm pretty sure Eeli identifies as nonbinary instead of FtM trans based on the some details. Eeli is a male name and Finnish pronouns are gender neutral so I didn't think about this at first but the story uses a term directly translated as "other gendered" instead of the more common "transsexual".
