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I Am Turtleboy: A teacher turned blogger battles big tech censorship, threats, and political correctness to protect free speech and democracy by [Aidan Kearney]

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Free speech is a myth. Technically we’re allowed to say what we want and won’t get arrested for it, but we constantly have to self-censor our speech, including our political opinions, for many reasons. You’re allowed to express some opinions, so long as they’re the right opinions. But if you lose your ability to pay your bills as a result of your honest and open speech, then you’re not really free. A handful of social justice warriors in Silicon Valley are able to decide what we can and cannot talk about, and when we can’t openly express controversial opinions in the public square, then we have lost our democracy.

I was a high school history teacher for 11 years and during that time I learned the hard way that my opinions were the wrong opinions. After getting an unpaid suspension for starting a blog called AidanFromWorcester.com, which expressed opinions on issues that the school did not approve of, I decided to create an anonymous blog that would act as the voice of the people – Turtleboy Sports.

Turtleboy started as a hobby but has grown to a website with millions of monthly followers and is now my business. I hire bloggers who pen under nom de plumes because anonymity gives people the freedom to express opinions that many others agree with, but are afraid to say out loud out for fear of consequences. Turtleboy is popular and has grown so quickly because we say what many other people are thinking.

I left teaching in November of 2014 after a blogger from Buffalo wrote a libelous blog about me, alleging that I sexually assaulted a woman in front of 60,000 people at a Patriots-Bills game. The blogger was successfully sued for libel, but so many of my students read it that it became impossible to teach anymore. After the school received hundreds of calls and death threats they offered me a full year’s salary to walk away quietly. I took the money and used is to turn Turtleboy from a hobby into a business.

Turtleboy has broken major stories that the mainstream media couldn’t because we have better sources. We’ve exposed corruption involving the Massacchusetts State Police and politicians that led to the resignation of the 4 highest-ranking members of the MSP. The blog has helped expose contractors and con-artists, drug dealing state troopers, brought criminals to justice, shut down a death factory of a puppy mill, reformed school districts, and exposed insurance fraud, non-profit fraud, sexual abuse, food stamp fraud, fake hate crimes, and many other stories that the mainstream media would never touch.

When I left teaching I felt liberated and free for the first time, but because our bloggers are unapologetic, brutally honest, we get a lot of pushback. We entertain by not only reporting news, but by using language that some might find unsavory. As a result outside forces have used various methods to try to silence the blog. Turtleboy has been the subject of countless boycotts. I’ve been unsuccessfully sued for libel many times; including by a former advertiser who was upset the blog didn’t endorse him for Mayor. I’ve gotten too many death threats to count, had “fuck you” keyed into the hood of my car, and been angrily confronted in restaurants. I’ve had a Facebook page with 112,000 followers removed for wishing people a Merry Christmas, and had 32 business pages taken down since. The blog has been blacklisted by Google AdSense, and my house and phone are permanently banned from creating Twitter accounts.

All of these things have combined to cost my business hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a couple years. But they will never stop Turtleboy because I refuse to censor and give up the rights that our Founding Fathers sacrificed their lives for because people who disagree with us use fear, intimidation, and economic warfare to silence us. When we self-censor we don’t contribute to public discourse in the public square, and in doing so we lose our democracy.

This is the story of Turtleboy.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07K8CNVYT
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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TimothyDavid

Good read for fans of the blog

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2022

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Overall, I gained a new appreciation for the work that goes into the blog and enjoyed learning how it all started. I’m still an avid reader of the blog and really liked the book. Would recommend.

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Deb Z.

Exceptional ~ Money Well Spent!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2019

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As a bona-fide Masshole, a devout reader/follower of the blog and a proud turtle rider, I'm giving Mr. Kearney's book the ★5★ star rating it deserves. Not only have I been, like •chronically• entertained by the assortment of quality content published within almost every blog posted since I was first exposed to the likes of TB (℅ a Facebook "friend" of mine - one out of the handful of online-only people to whom I've ever extended a friend request - who *just* so happened to have a penchant for either habitually sharing links to - or posting his personal commentary on - all their most outrageous stories on such a frequent basis that my News Feed would become virtually *inundated* by his activity on a regular basis!) back in the summer of 2016, I wholeheartedly admire Aidan's iron-
willed tenacity, unshakeable constitution, & selfless determination to persevere, even in spite of both overwhelmingly-high amounts of odds stacked against him AND a surplus of perpetually-recurring, überexpensive and time-consuming setbacks in abundance. I fully support the mission of preserving and upholding democracy with the salvation of free speech, promotion of fearless opinion- sharing {regardless of whether or not other perspectives expressed perfectly align with one's own; never a factor of consequence}, and resolution to speak up on the behalf of all people unable or unwilling to voice their *own* mutual thoughts or feelings for any reason - anytime, anywhere, anyone. We all deserve transparency from media sources, just like individuals who publicly exhibit the kind of animalistic, abysmal behavior that'll doubtlessly mark you as a prime target for the widespread ridicule and shame which accompanies becoming Turtleboy-famous deserve to be sterilized and incarcerated at minimum.

WE ARE ALL TURTLEBOY. And we will NEVER be silenced.

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MarkBell

Smart teacher

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2018

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Aidan provides some very basic experience, not surprising from a history teacher, that shows us the perpetual nature of greed in society. This greed is not simply financial, but about power...the power of liberalism, as Mark Zuckerberg yields, with the active contradiction he sports that Facebook is for the people... It may have been at one time, but apparently it's for c-e-r-t-a-i-n people, who, if they do not think a certain way, are annoyed, harassed, and disposed, with the classic liberal excuses like: it must be a mistake....or, our system did it....or, we're sorry you have been __________ . There are no coincidences, and Aidan knows this, because the history of all zealots is first genius, then greed, then, especially these days, self-victimization followed by an apology. After all, the cry of the liberal is "it's easier to apologize than to seek permission", then the radical liberals, especially, forget to apologize....they go someplace else to take away from somebody else the same rights they insist are theirs. Turtles have a hard outer shell and a soft warm heart, and don't need more than their own space to survive, as compared to other animals who need others' space, and will lie, cheat, and steal, to gain it...leave it in ruins, then go to the next...because nothing is good enough. Long live the Turtle!!! The Turtle IS good enough... Is the US? Is Facebook? Read and ask yourself.

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crystal Bickford

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 1, 2022

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I don't read very much but I read this whole book. I like couldn't even put it down.

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Mic Dyer

Turtleboy is the REAL news here in MA as well as most of New England!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 13, 2020

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Love him or hate him, this is a phenomenal book. I'm a turtle rider through and through and could not put it down. Extremely well written, awesome backstory of how the blog was started and written in the traditional Turtleboy fashion, no-holds-bar! The people in MA who don't enjoy this blog are probably trash that has been blogged about or their family and friends have been.

The people who shout from the roof tops that Aiden isn't a real journalist are the so-called-journalists that are jealous of the stories he broke on the MA State Police, the RMV after that kid killed a group of bikers in NH, and so many others that ended up in "the Turtleboy graveyard". If you live in New England you should be reading his blogs on the daily as well as this book!

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Cabo2005

If you want to know what makes Turtle Buy tick, get the book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2022

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Great read from our fairly local blogger!

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Ashley

Well Written Insight On The Modern War Against Free Speech

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2019

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Being a loner, introvert, and critical thinker, I knew I wouldn’t want to put this book down. Our fundamental right to free speech is being challenged daily, ad nauseum so as to conform to the ‘feelings’ of those whom are in fact failing us on Capitol Hill. TBS has, and will continue to be a valuable concept, in the face of the ever-evolving Social Justice practice permeating through contemporary society. Free Speech is an important cornerstone of our culture, and one that TBS carries the banner without fear, or reluctance. Aidan, and his team of bloggers are a movement in which regardless of what side of the aisle you’re on, they speak on behalf of all of us.

Great piece of writing. Well written. Entertaining.

Thank you for continuing the fight for those of us that are conflicted in sharing our uncensored opinions for fear of retaliation. You folks provide a voice, for those of us that feel we are bound & gagged.

...btw...great customer service! Received my copy a day in advance.

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starbug79

Worth the wait

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2018

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A must-read for those that are fans of TBS and even beneficial to those that may not agree with it. You get to see that there is substance behind the colourful language used in the blogs and naysayers may even find themselves converted.

It's great to get an insight into how TBS came about, how it has developed over the years and get a sense of where it is going. The future looks green.