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Half the internet thinks troll means "person who disagrees with me or (dis)likes thing i (dis)like" - I'm distrustful of people who paint them as a big problem
by dontupvoteme 3y ago
Half the internet thinks troll means "person who disagrees with me or (dis)likes thing i (dis)like" - I'm distrustful of people who paint them as a big problem on the internet.
Is this how the western Social Credit system begins?
- pphysch 3y agoTrolls, as in troll farms, astroturfing, organized influence campaigns, etc. are absolutely a serious problem for any society that pretends to care about democracy. Especially in the LLM era, where the marginal cost of adding another artificial "voice" approaches $0.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoThat's not what troll means. Astroturfing as you said is much better. They're going to be pushing for WEI/Attestation/Requiring easily doxxable accounts using this a bogeyman, aren't they?
- pphysch 3y agoIf that is not one of the definitions of troll, then can you please explain what a "troll farm" is supposed to be? > They're going to be pushing for WEI/Attestation/Requiring easily doxxable accounts using this a bogeyman, aren't they? It's not a bogeyman. It's a real, current, serious problem.
- whatshisface 3y agoIf the troll farms are responsible for online attacks on our civil liberties, why would they use themselves, troll farms, as the justification? I rather think the attacks on our freedom are being made by real people who are misguided about the tradeoffs between letting people speak when they are wrong, and making it easy for officials covering up misconduct.
- ben0x539 3y ago"Troll farm" is also based on this new usage of the word.
- dfhanionio 3y agoI think we've lost this battle. "Troll" means roughly "person who behaves badly". The word has become useless. I know language changes over time. This was clearly a change for the worse.