Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli became famous for hitting AIDS patients with a price hike in a life-saving drug—and then for the fraud charges for which he awaits his day in court. But he’s also a bit of an odd duck, eating shit on campus and getting kicked off Twitter for harassment. Now he’s been noticed snapping up web domains that include critics’ and enemies’ names.
Maxwell Tani at Business Insider:
Over the past five months, Shkreli has purchased domains associated with writers from Vice, Vanity Fair, AOL, Bloomberg, Dealbreaker, and Gizmodo, along with others associated with other individuals critical of Shkreli on social media.
Shkreli didn’t appear to be too happy when Noisey reporter Phil Witmer published a story … “Can I buy philwitmer.com right now? Yes I can, and yes I will,” he said to whoever was watching his livestream. …
In the weeks after Shkreli’s Twitter account was suspended in January for harassing Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca, the former exec started buying up domain names for journalists, snagging “marrymelauren.com” on the day he was suspended.
Martin Shkreli keeps buying up the personal domain names of journalists who write about him [BI]