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> It was during the summer of 2014 that internet trolling boiled over into a mainstream crisis. Oh right OK, yeah that did it. If I am the only person on HN th
by irishcoffee 10y ago
> It was during the summer of 2014 that internet trolling boiled over into a mainstream crisis.
Oh right OK, yeah that did it. If I am the only person on HN that hasn't heard of Zoe Quinn, I'll humbly eat crow. If the author thinks that "internet trolling didn't boil over until 2014" we must have been using different interwebz, which is _not_ the one I've been using for the past 25 years.
- anjc 10y agoYeah, this exactly. Gamergate was complicated to understand even when you were trying to understand it and keep up. It's such nonsense to suggest that anybody outside of tiny niche parts of the internet even heard of it.