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dukkha
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by dukkha » 28 Mar 2010, 19:54
So... I think the Courier Mail wins the most egregious misunderstanding of the word troll in a single article award.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/tech ... public_rss
I particularly liked:
She said an estimated 9000 devotees of several internet "shock sites" used to swap graphic and shocking material – including child pornography and snuff films – had become trolls, hijacking Facebook to attack memorial sites. Some trolls set up fake RIP sites and waited for tributes before attacking them with "the vilest stuff", the woman said.
Now, maybe I'm wrong, but they just discovered 4chan exists, didn't they? And then pretended there was child porn on it, because that's always the winning internet argument.
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Cartollomew
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by Cartollomew » 29 Mar 2010, 02:35
Follow-up article:
"Frustrated 'Troll Hunters' Discover that Saying Mean Things Isn't Against the Law"
Who do you think you are? If you'd stopped winning, you could have been the Biggest Loser, if you gave up, you could have been a Survivor, if you'd stopped reading Orwell, you could have been on Big Brother!
