Chad Miller, AIA, NCARB, Colorado, telephonically harasses (user accounts with various names) from approximately 6/18/2022-6/20/2022 on the forum of the social networking site Archinect.
Mr. Miller falsely accuses an anonymous user account, aka: X, of being someone named “Alexander Watanabe”, in multiple posts, over several hours. Mr. Miller repeatedly makes belligerent, demeaning comments on anything X writes on the site.
Mr. Miller then falsely accuses X of making a “homophobic joke”. Mr. Miller offered that he is a “girl next door sort” to which X replies that the girls next door to X, one just had hip surgery, and the other is recently divorced.
Mr. Miller then proceedes down some rabbit hole.
Mr. Miller and/or others, including an anonymous user account allegedly belonging to (name redacted), Astoria, OR, attempt to de-anonymize another user. (Name redacted) is de-platformed previously from Archinect, but then returns under various other user names. Some of the users have multiple accounts with different user names.
Mr. Miller repeatedly demands X reveal the identity of the person controlling the user account.
(Control of a user account is not a fixed position. Sometimes accounts can, in theory, be hacked, or have unauthorized users. Content can be manipulated or removed by moderators.)
Archinect allows users to be anonymous, the vast majority of the forum users are anonymous.
Archinect has a history of enabling telephonic harassment, and of de-platforming users. Some users engage in gaslighting sorts of posts that they obviously do not want traced to their real names.
X then shares (an) identity, a link to a website, implying the site is related to X, perhaps hoping it would get Mr. Miller to change his behavior, but Mr. Miller continues the telephonic harassment of X and others.
Watching this from a screen (the author sometimes reads the forum posts, even though said author is not a registered user there) the author decides to do a keyword search for “Chad Miller, AIA”.
Author learns the name of his alleged employer, the Blythe Group, an architecture firm in Grand Junction, CO, to let them know that one of their employees is engaging in telephonic harassment, and defamation.
Author suggests to the Blythe Group via their website form that if author was a potential client, author would not hire them based on the posts being made by their employee, Mr. Miller.
(Author frequently collaborates with architects and engineers on design work)
The next day Peter T. Icenogle phoned author.
Mr. Icenogle seems unaware of Archinect, or that Mr. Miller is posting there.
Author suggests to Mr. Icenogle that Mr. Miller’s posts could negatively impact the firm, given they would likely show up high in internet search results of his name.
X commented on Archinect to Mr. Miller: “You know your posts here reflect back on your firm, you know this, right?”
Archinect’s response to this is to de-platform (a user account Mr. Miller is harassing) and delete several related posts.
In doing so, Archinect is protecting the abuser, Mr. Miller, and giving him a platform.
The de-platforming of X seems to be discriminatory and/or retaliatory in nature. Archinect de-platformed X and deletes the posts. Archinect does this numerous times, to numerous people, over a several year span.
Author calls the police department in Grand Junction, CO, where the Blythe Group is based, to ask about filing a police report of Mr. Miller’s online harassment. The dispatcher suggests author file the report in Portland, OR, where author lives.
Author files the report with the Portland police today.
Author, Portland, OR
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