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As far as I can tell, trolls thrive on a narrow Overton Window.

• BadassFractal 9y ago
  That's a pretty interesting though, never thought of it that way. Makes sense that the more things you can talk about, the less shock value they can extract from it.
  • QAPereo 9y ago
    From another perspective you could say they're lowering the bar overall, and you're saying the only way to deal with them is that you de-sensitize yourself to them. Nietzsche springs to mind, about gazing into abysses and battling monsters.
    • tepe1 9y ago
      No, the result of a "narrow Overton window" is just anybody worth a damn leaving the conversation. Which is what the trolls and their heroic free speech defenders really want. The primary objective of carrying around Nazi flags and or spewing hate against "feminists" is to silence everybody but yourself. This is exactly how the real Nazis did it.
• anigbrowl 9y ago
  Is this a conjecture or a claim? In my experience the Overton Window is wider in the US than most other places, but there is also a greater tendency towards trolling in US society as well. These assertions would be challenging to measure, but might be amenable to proxy representations.
  • rgrieselhuber 9y ago
    It's just my own observation. It's definitely wider in the US than other places but also enforced differently, depending on where you go. In the US, we have a "soft" enforcement, although with doxxing, etc., it's not so soft in many cases.