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Internet Trolling-NPR
From fake hurricane tweets to anonymous online viciousness, we look at the “troll factor” in the national conversation.
News from the world of Internet trolls lately. In the midst of Hurricane Sandy, of emergency and life and death, trolls on Twitter posting false reports of power outage and crisis where it wasn’t.
In the midst of online site Reddit, a mega-troll and pedophile promoter, unveiled. Outed. The migration of so much of our national conversation to the web has opened a door to the troll – the anonymous prankster bully vandal derailer of discourse. Trolls say wait a minute, we’ve got a point. Do they?
This hour, On Point: Internet trolls.
-Tom Ashbrook
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As if things couldn't get any crazier after the election, what with white folks (Republicans mainly) still scratching their heads trying to figure out how the hell Obama won in the first place, now, apparently, a lot of crazy-ass people have decided that it's better to actually secede from the United States than spent another 4 years with a Black President back in the White House (as if having a white man back in there is going to get them more jobs or whatever--duhhhhh!
At first I thought this shit had to be a joke,but, no it's actually real---even my home state Michigan (which contains plenty of Tea Party nuts) has a petition going---check it out:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/secession-petitions-now-filed-5...
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Also, trolls are an unfortunate fact of life on the net. I've cussed out many a one over the years, and I still enjoy doing it to this day. Especially if they come on a board with some racist bullshit, I make damn sure to check them with the quickness,to let them now that everybody dosen't think the same damn way they do, and to take that shit to Stormfront or whatever. Eventually they piss off enough people and get banned anyway, which is nice!
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