Autism discrimination/harassment online

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I (somewhat regrettably) shared the fact I have autism as well as my name/location on another message board a number of years ago. So, many of the posters there know I utilize disability assistance.

This in and of itself shouldn't be used against anyone, but I have found the posts on the board to become very toxic and antagonistic over the years. Here are a few examples.

harassment example

harassment

final harassment example
I know these comments are extremely unhealthy to digest and should not be taken seriously.
Yet I've also wondered whether their is a criminal element here. I did call the FBI a few times though I wasn't confident they took my complaint seriously.

I am not optimistic, but a part of me would love to see whoever has made the comments suggesting people on AISH (the name of the benefits program I utilize) be euthanized be identified and possibly criminally charged.

It seems that people can operate with anonymity online and say outrageous things and get away with it.

Someone from this website even went as far as to contact the benefits program I use claiming that I was fraudulently using it.
When I asked the program to tell me their identity they said they couldn't for privacy reasons.

I don't know about reporting it to the FBI but did you report the posts to Imgur?

The posts appear to me to break the Imgur rules (https://imgur.com/rules).
Did you report the posts to Imgur support?

I'm not sure their behaviour reaches the level required to be considered criminal, but it's probably a ToS violation on the forum itself.

That guy deserves a lantern, right in the face.

the posts came from the message board. I uploaded them to imgur.

Does that mean you reported them to Imgur support?

Why would I do that?
I had to upload them to imgur so I could show some examples in the thread.

Wouldn't Imgur support be able to ban them from Imgur...if they were breaking Imgur policies and rules?

I don't think you understand. Let me explain:

The posts in question came from a certain message board. Not Imgur.

I then took screenshots of them to upload them to imgur so I could provid examples on this thread.

Does that make sense?

In no way does the harassing behaviour from these anonymous people have anything to do with Imgur.

Then instead of contacting the people responsible for Imgur, can you contact the people responsible for those message boards?