Posted on 07/21/2015 3:49:06 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Sharon and Richard Moreno were awakened by a phone call from a police negotiator around 2:30 a.m. one night last May. He told them to get out of their home immediately and leave their adult son behind.
Officers with rifles greeted the couple on their front lawn in Sterling, Va., and tackled their son William on the porch. They had been drawn by a chilling post attributed to William on a popular local Web forum: “I JUST SHOT MY PARENTS NOW I WILL KILL MY SISTER.”
The Morenos say in a lawsuit that the post was a hoax, part of an unrelenting campaign of harassment by “trolls” on the forum, Fairfax Underground, that turned their lives upside down and drove William to attempt suicide.
[Science reveals what makes trolls so nasty] William Moreno, 32, poses for a portrait at the home of his parents, Sharon and Richard Moreno, in Sterling, Va. He has major depression, and at first a Web forum seemed a good fit for someone who finds it painful to socialize in the real world. (Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post)
Trolls are the bane of online forums, games and comment sections, sowing discord with inflammatory remarks and needling other users for laughs. Most are content to cause trouble on the Web, but in the Morenos’ case, the lawsuit says, the attacks made the unusual leap from cyberspace to the real world.
Malevolent trolling has raised increasing concern in recent years.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
They were not posting anonymously. Big mistake.
I wish Obama had found a forum to haunt. He would have been a great troll (classic sissy and gutless mamma’s boy), and maybe then he could satisfy his sick urges without wanting to destroy all of America in the real world.
Trolls are evil gremlins and a blight on humanity. We have a fair share of them on FR, lots of them are Apple-haters drawn to the light of Apple threads.
Trolls are bad, no argument there, but, this is coming from the Washington Post, which is one of the pointmen, so to speak, for the left’s agenda. So-I’m womdering what fresh hell the Hussein administration is preparing to unleash upon our freedom.
Today’s meme: “Trump is a troll”....
Coincidence? I think not, the media tightly controls it’s product.
Sounds to me like one of his idols might be Obama's Weather Underground pal, Bill Ayers.
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. ..."
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,”
Interesting observation. So far, Trump has great them back, but it remains to be seen what the left comes up with.
Pride often drives trollery.
Yesterday we had this: “Nate Silver: Donald Trump Is The World’s Greatest Troll”; today they run this story they’ve apparently had since last May.
It’s a horrifying story nonetheless.
Even at his worst, Trump has not done any of the sheer mean spirited things that are being discussed in the lede article.
Subliminal innuendo is the media’s stock in trade. Works good too.
Could be a coincidence of course.
Yet as a result the term “troll” has lost much of its shock value.
Yep, exactly right.
I could hear the wheels churning behind this text.
Generally we all deal with it. It’s a part of life. I don’t want to see a big fix here. Good grief, a normal conversation goes heated and all of a sudden a swat team comes in and your home computer is taken.
No thanks.
Trolls would make an interesting subject for study. I don’t mean the Russian ones; they’re paid. But the true trolls who have no sense of compunction. It’s almost like they have prehistoric, reptilian brains.
About how childish and mean this phenomenon is....
The troll from the harry Potter movie will always be in my minds-eye as the definition of a troll.
LOL.
Wonder which one wrote the headline up on Drudge now
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