When Is A Troll No Longer A Troll?

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For pretty much as long as there has been INTERNET there have been people who make it their business to get in other people’s business on it… whose activities range in severity from easily ignored m8s postin’ gr8 b8 in comment threads to perpetrators of actual, unignorable, life upending harassment. We did a video a while back on the complications that arise when you confuse those two groups. This video is about that same confusion from a different perspective. At one point, the Trolls Defense was that they keep stupid people busy so they don’t ruin the internet for everyone else; they spotlight hypocrisy and distract irksome internet folk by being disingenuous rhetorical sparring partners. But today when people who are inflicting life upending harassment, issuing death threats and ganging up on people online are ALSO called trolls, how do these two groups relate to each other? Maybe there really isn’t a distinction at all. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

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00:21 Early AOL Commercial (1995)

00:39 The Experience of Being Trolled

1:02 Letters of Note

4:37 Hell is Quoting Other People

4:37 How Does Deadpool Know He’s a Comic Book Character?

5:14 Don’t feed the trolls? It’s not that simple
http://www.dailydot.com/via/phillips-dont-feed-trolls-antisocial-web/

6:02 Why Online Harassment Is Still Ruining Lives
https://www.fastcompany.com/3046772/tech-forecast/why-online-harassment-is-still-ruining-lives-and-how-we-can-stop-it

7:14 Is The Internet a Public Place?

7:14 How To Create Responsible Social Criticism

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