Notorious troll calls the online tactics 'a national sport'

A notorious computer hacker whose anti-Semitic rhetoric matches the swastika tattooed on his chest, the 31-year-old views online trolling campaigns as a modern form of an age-old political tactic.

Trolling ( http://apne.ws/2mPU2Gk ) is a calling card of the "alt-right" — an amorphous fringe movement that uses internet memes, message boards and social media to spread a hodgepodge of racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and xenophobia.

Targets of The Daily Stormer's "Troll Army" have included prominent journalists, a British Parliament member and Alex Jones, a radio host and conspiracy theorist whom website founder Andrew Anglin derided as a "Zionist Millionaire."

A federal jury convicted him of identity theft and conspiracy charges in 2013 for his role in developing a program that exploited an AT&T security flaw to collect 114,000 email addresses of iPad users.

[...] he was released in 2014 after an appeals court panel overturned his convictions, ruling the government improperly charged him in New Jersey when all of his conduct occurred while he was living in Arkansas.

In a post published last Friday by The Daily Stormer, Auernheimer accused prominent Jewish people of trying to "frame" him for the recent wave of bomb threats to Jewish community centers.