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How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet
Time Magazine ^ | 8/18/2016 | Joel Stein

Posted on 08/18/2016 9:02:21 AM PDT by PapaBear3625

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: internet; media; timemag; trolls; trump
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To: PapaBear3625

I like how the comments section is closed.

Just like I like how Time magazine, an outlet that works in the medium of free speech, free press and free expression is lecturing us about how all of those things are evil and need to be limited.


121 posted on 08/18/2016 2:05:28 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: JimRed

People who like to waste their time in this manner use proxy servers.


122 posted on 08/18/2016 2:25:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PapaBear3625

Time is irrelevant


123 posted on 08/18/2016 2:30:24 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: Tzimisce
Just read a Joel Stein piece in an old issue on Trump melting down. He refers to those of us who are fans of Limbaugh and Hannity as “terrifying.” He's very frightened about how we will react when Trump loses the election. He thinks Trump, with his talk of rigged elections, is setting us up for violence. That's how the left is planning on stealing the election—innoculating themselves against charges of cheating.
124 posted on 08/18/2016 2:30:32 PM PDT by binreadin
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To: Vigilanteman
It wasn't long before the snowflakes started unfriending me. They could post their cultural Marxist pablum to their heart's content, but went ballistic when I just let another view be disclosed.

I've encountered similar phenomena. Leftists are not just bothered by hearing differing opinions, it bothers them to be aware of the existence of other viewpoints.

Possibly because they know they can't use logic and reasoning to refute other opinions. The most they can do is to try to silence other opinions.

125 posted on 08/18/2016 2:55:44 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

As someone who identified as alt-right, I would note that sometimes alt-right trolls can get a little out of hand. But that is an expected, and I think healthy reaction to the left wing’s use of “civility” and PC as a tool to shut down debate and enforce liberal norms of social control. You want to try to win a debate by calling me a racist? Fine, here’s a meme with your photo in a concentration camp oven with Pepe dressed in an SS outfit about gas you.

We are done being silent. You don’t get to control the discussion anymore.


126 posted on 08/18/2016 5:01:16 PM PDT by Toliph
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To: binreadin

Meanwhile, BLM is out there committing acts of violence while this guy says nothing.

I love Obamaland. :)


127 posted on 08/18/2016 7:04:26 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: I want the USA back
Does the article mention that muzzards use the internet to recruit jihadis, to incite to violence, and to spread hatred?

Or that a certain demographic uses it to organize mayhem and post exploits?

128 posted on 08/18/2016 7:28:33 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Mr. Douglas

Nice. I’ll remember that one. Consider that appropriated.


129 posted on 08/18/2016 7:30:42 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Excellence

They do have a twitter account, which I thoroughly trolled when they posted a pro-Islam article””

I commend you. I don’t Twitter but I often make comments on liberal propaganda sites. I have lost track of how many I have been banned from. I think the first was the San Fran Chronicle. I made some comment about queers spreading diseases from a CDC article.


130 posted on 08/19/2016 5:57:02 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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To: PapaBear3625

So the leftists have had their own tactics used in them and they’re all butt-hurt.
PWN3D!
REKT!


131 posted on 08/19/2016 9:42:20 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Yaelle
Calling “diversity of opinion” trolling is like saying there is only one right way to think and it is yours. It’s immature and anti intellectual.

IOW, it's leftist thinking.

132 posted on 08/19/2016 11:49:45 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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