Free speech or harassment? Online trolls sued

Video-game developer James Romine of Yuma has filed a lawsuit seeking to sue 100 anonymous online commenters. After asking for help and being turned away by the FBI and the Yuma County Sheriff's Office, a video-game developer in Yuma has sued in federal court over what he calls relentless online harassment that has lasted more than 1 1/2 years. Brothers James and Robert Romine founded Digital Homicide Studios LCC in Arizona in 2014 and have since created more than 60 small PC games. Their largest distributor was Steam, a wildly popular online platform owned by Valve Corporation that lets users digitally buy and play video games. The Romines contend that criticism of their work, which started with a video from a popular YouTube personality, has escalated beyond appropriate critique into harassment.