Forget anonymity: Internet trolls are more abusive when using their real names, study finds - National | Globalnews.ca
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This College Student Is Writing Women Back into the History of Science - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/this-college-student-is-writing-women-back-into-the-history-of-scienceEmily Temple-Wood has written approximately one Wikipedia article every ten days since she was 12 years old, totaling around 330. The work of the 21-year-old undergraduate, studying molecular biology at Loyola University of Chicago, unabashedly exposes sexism—and in the process, has exposed her to some of it. Temple-Wood’s output has made her the target of Internet trolls: Emboldened by anonymity, they deluge her inbox with cruel emails about her body, intelligence, and sexual decision-making. Until recently, Temple-Wood simply ignored them. When their numbers jumped recently (she receives dozens a week), she finally responded: For every harassing email she receives, she has pledged to immortalize another female scientist on Wikipedia. It was a simple, elegant solution to a problem: (...)
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Russian Trolls’ Vast Library Of Insulting Images
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Russia — screen grab of Russian troll graphic database вштабе.рфEver wonder where the droves of Russian-language Internet trolls get those satirical graphics they deploy to smear Western and Ukrainian leaders? Turns out there’s a website with a vast archive of images helping them pepper their posts with visual invective.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on April 2 that the website with the Cyrillic address ▻http://вштабе.рф ("в штабе" translates from Russian as “in the headquarters”) hosts thousands of these ready-made images for use by hundreds of paid trolls working for a secretive organization in St. Petersburg.
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Comedy doesn’t belong to the a**holes anymore
▻http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/artie-lange-twitter-rant-comedy-lindy-west/?tw=dd« Internet trolling is not random, it is not inevitable, it is a deliberate force with a political agenda—a strong-armed goon of the conservative status quo—whether every individual troll realizes that or not.
There’s a reason why the most violent, sexually explicit, long-term abuse is reserved for people who agitate for diversity in traditionally white-male-dominated spaces: video games, comedy, atheism. Internet trolls (or, more accurately, the agitators who whip them into a frenzy) want to control who gets to talk, because their dominance is threatened by what’s being said. »(Permalink)
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The Secret Playbook of Internet Trolls
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-secret-playbook-of-internet-trollsPleased to meet you Hope you guess my name What’s confusing you Is the nature of my game
The Rolling Stones
What’s Confusing You Is the Nature of Their Game
The reason that Internet trolls...
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John Oliver Takes On The FCC, Truly Epic Treatise Calling On All Internet Trolls To Prevent Cable Company F-ckery Ensues
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/john-oliver-net-neutralityCable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they’re doing it so boringly that most news outlets aren’t covering it. John Oliver explains the controversy...
