How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet

[crimethink]

http://time.com/4457110/internet-trolls/


How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet

(((Joel Stein)))

August 18, 2016 7:09 AM ET

They’re turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse

This story is not a good idea. Not for society and certainly not for me. Because what trolls feed on is attention. And this little bit–these several thousand words–is like leaving bears a pan of baklava.

[...]

But trolling has become the main tool of the alt-right, an Internet-grown reactionary movement that works for men’s rights and against immigration and may have used the computer from Weird Science to fabricate Donald Trump. Not only does Trump share their attitudes, but he’s got mad trolling skills: he doxxed Republican primary opponent Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out his cell-phone number on TV and indirectly got his Twitter followers to attack GOP political strategist Cheri Jacobus so severely that her lawyers sent him a cease-and-desist order.

The alt-right’s favorite insult is to call men who don’t hate feminism “cucks,” as in “cuckold.” Republicans who don’t like Trump are “cuckservatives.” Men who don’t see how feminists are secretly controlling them haven’t “taken the red pill,” a reference to the truth-revealing drug in The Matrix. They derisively call their adversaries “social-justice warriors” and believe that liberal interest groups purposely exploit their weakness to gain pity, which allows them to control the levers of power. Trolling is the alt-right’s version of political activism, and its ranks view any attempt to take it away as a denial of democracy.

[crimethink]

Obviously, it's a "problem" that legislators will "have to address."

[Jewboo]

(((They))) are now freaking out.

[cheka.]

love reading msm propaganda with comment sections -- the 'trolls' shredding the lies in the article

[mamboni]

More fucking whining from another metrosexual I'm-better-than-you-because-I'm-a-progressive thin-skinned libtard:
"oh my, the trolls on line are so mean and scary and they called me bad names! This is all Trump's fault! I'm a victim of hate! OMG." I think what I find most objectionable about the leftists is their passive-aggressive two-faced mock-shocked slimey unprincipled weasily personas. You see, when a whiney leftist calls Trump a violent misogynist chauvinist pig-dog, he is not enaged in hate speech. No no no, he is a sensitive caring progressive who supports unfettered third trimester abortions (champion of women's right don't you know) and is merely helping the reader to understand Trump. When leftists call Trump a nazi and racist, these are not terms of hate. Rather, these are analytic terms employed in the service of the public by a sensitive caring progressive who is incapable of hating anyone.

[Ponce]

IF you let them guide you or pat attention to them they mean something but if you really don't pay attention to them, as I do, then they are really nothing..........I don't even know what a troll really is, why hell maybe I am one and don't even know it kekekekekek

V

[Joshua01]

IF you let them guide you or pat attention to them they mean something but if you really don't pay attention to them, as I do, then they are really nothing..........I don't even know what a troll really is, why hell maybe I am one and don't even know it kekekekekek

V

<<<<< Troll!

[Ares]

I prefer the /Pol/ Time cover myself.

[cheka.]

author is a flaming racist --- defending jewish control of hollywood and whining about indians moving into his town

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Stein

In 2008, Stein, being Jewish himself, wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled "Who runs Hollywood? C'mon". It attempted to highlight and yet argue against the importance of supposed Jewish control over Hollywood

In July 2010, Stein wrote a humor column for Time in which he expressed his discomfort at the impact immigration of Indians has had on his hometown of Edison, New Jersey.

[Norweger]

IF you let them guide you or pat attention to them they mean something but if you really don't pay attention to them, as I do, then they are really nothing..........I don't even know what a troll really is, why hell maybe I am one and don't even know it kekekekekek

V

It's a creature from Norwegian fairytales.