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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
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101 posted on 08/18/2016 10:39:58 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Does the article mention that muzzards use the internet to recruit jihadis, to incite to violence, and to spread hatred?


102 posted on 08/18/2016 10:42:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic PartyÂ’s press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: cymbeline

Deliberately misunderstanding Trump is the definition of trollish.


103 posted on 08/18/2016 10:46:02 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: The Toll

Don’t worry, in a short time Obama will give away control of the internet and it will never be the same again. Just watch. The lefties cannot and will not tolerate opposing opinions. Once it is controlled by those who have no accountability to anyone, then it will not be a free forum.


104 posted on 08/18/2016 10:57:48 AM PDT by Doche2X2
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To: JimRed
That's correct. As I've been saying the last year or two, TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!

Yep. Point out that the shootings of Trayvon and Michael Brown were justified and you are a hateful supporter of racial violence. Point out the pathologies of urban black culture and you're a bigot. Demonstrate how large-xcale legal and illegal immigration affects American worker's wages and you are a xenophobe. And if you quote the Koran to show the general incompatibilities of Islam with a secular republic, you're an Islamophobe.

Basically, any fact that the left doesn't like is reduced to hate speech so they can rationalize it away.

105 posted on 08/18/2016 10:58:18 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: PapaBear3625

Notice how agitated Clinton’s mook Mook got with Brietbart the other day?
Uniparty’s media organs like Time have been given their orders: accept no deviation from the party line from “trolls”.

We conservatives have a handful of sources from which we can expect a straight story and Time, the Weakly Standard, the NYT, NR, et al. have been instructed to smear them as trolls.


106 posted on 08/18/2016 11:01:19 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: PapaBear3625

They miss the good ol’ days when left wingers were everywhere on the net saying RayGUN was the worst President ever...and everything was “Bush’s Fault” and how they hate him.. and they even made a movie about assassinating him? And of course Sarah Palin’s family were fair game in their warped minds.
But oh yeah the alternate Right are tolls???


107 posted on 08/18/2016 11:03:56 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Speaking of trolls, where has Fauxcahontus gone? Is she building a base so hillary can quit?


108 posted on 08/18/2016 11:07:02 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: dirtboy
I see far more truly abusive posts from the left than the right.

I seldom if ever see outright death threats coming from even the most fringe alt-right elements that Stein whines about. I see them a lot from #BlackLivesMatter types online.

As you say, BLMers threatening to murder people is just self-expression according to media mavens like Joel Stein. Someone pointing out that blacks have more unfortunate encounters with police because they commit crimes at sky-high rates is considered "trolling" and "hate speech" by Joel Stein and his friends.

109 posted on 08/18/2016 11:08:37 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: PapaBear3625

Strange, I see lefty trolls mostly, and they always have a Trump avatar with bad hair.


110 posted on 08/18/2016 11:10:58 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: Jane Long
Hmmm....here’s another (newly outed lefty) who is using that same’alt-right’ turn of phrase.....the ousted Bennie Shapiro.....

What is it about Trump that drives Jewish neo-cons into hysterics? He seems to have driven a lot of Jewish Republicans out of the party.

111 posted on 08/18/2016 11:24:54 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
I found this article rather frightening, in that it’s not really about Internet trolling, but instead it’s about basically tying anyone who opposes the left to neo-Nazi’s, child molesters, etc.

The Left does that a lot. To a Leftist, you can't disagree because you have a different viewpoint, or different priorities. To the Leftist, people who disagree are either "ignorant" (their term for people who have been inadequately indoctrinated) or you are Evil. There are no other possibilities to them.

If they have decided that your disagreement is because you are Evil, then they assume that there must be other Evil activities that you are guilty of (but REAL child-molesters, like Polanski, are given a pass, because the Left likes them).

A Leftist can never allow himself to think, even for a second, that any difference of opinion which rejects the Left's narrative, can be in any way legitimate.

112 posted on 08/18/2016 11:32:03 AM 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
Time has been the most successful Leftist weekly "News Magazine," since the 1930s. Although I believe they have been in a decline for a few decades--maybe not. They were known for many years by their pretentious prose; ever trying to give the impression of objectivity, while managing to inject extreme Leftist bias subtly into everything possible.

This piece is typical of what they peddled in the 1950s & 1960s. Nothing new, except a new target for a smear.

113 posted on 08/18/2016 11:42:04 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Paladin2

“Deliberately misunderstanding”

Isn’t that self contradictory?


114 posted on 08/18/2016 11:45:53 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: PapaBear3625

All very true. It’s a totalitarian mindset.


115 posted on 08/18/2016 11:47:45 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Disambiguator

Is it a POS? Most POS Subaru’s around here have many lib stickers on them. World Peace and such.


116 posted on 08/18/2016 11:49:25 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Poo poo the polls at Trump's peril.)
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To: Tenacious 1
troll2 trōl/Submit verb gerund or present participle: trolling 1. informal make a deliberately offensive or provocative online posting with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them. "if people are obviously trolling then I'll delete your posts and do my best to ban you"
117 posted on 08/18/2016 11:50:18 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (VMFA 235 '69-72)
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To: PapaBear3625

we are ale to restore sanity to those who are being gaslighted by the media.

This is more gaslighting by the Gaslight media.


118 posted on 08/18/2016 12:04:44 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: PapaBear3625

Not to worry precious leftists. Once Obama gives the internet to Mecca and Beijing all the trolling will be eliminated.


119 posted on 08/18/2016 12:37:47 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: mad_as_he$$

No, it’s a very nice specimen. About a 2005. I thought maybe you didn’t like Subarus and considered all of them POSs.

:^)


120 posted on 08/18/2016 12:39:42 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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