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What does this have to do with trolling? Don't they actually mean censoring/silencing? As far as I know the definition of a troll is "someone who posts inflamm

• user764743 3y ago
  The word lost its meaning a long time ago. Now it's used to define anything from someone sending death threats to state actors censoring dissent.
• iudqnolq 3y ago
  You're right that the focus of the article arguably doesn't fit the classic definition of trolling[0]. However, I think that this is a reasonably extension of the classic definition to fit newer problems. Rather than post the specious argument directly to Facebook they're sending it to the moderators. The purpose is the same, to disrupt the discussion. > 2. n. An individual who .. regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Further down in TFA they do bring up conventional trolling > She first noticed her pages getting targeted around a year ago, when a swarm of trolls began calling the Australia-based vlogger a prostitute or a loser, but never commenting on the actual content of her show, she said. [1]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/troll.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/troll.html