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Tools designed to fight trolls are being used to crack down on dissent
- bediger4000 12y agoI imagine the trolls in question feel pretty darn good about this, eh?
- aetherson 12y ago"Tools designed to silence people with unpopular views are being used to silence people with unpopular views."
- MichaelGG 12y agoYou'd think that Facebook would weight people's abuse reports if they ever abuse them. So perhaps 10 flags is enough to temporarily block a page if the reporting users are in good standing. But if they're proven to have bad judgement, then require far more reports. Same for "creating dozens of accounts" - that's some basic level stuff I'd expect FB able to deal with.
- DINKDINK 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
- fiatmoney 12y agoTrolls are dissent; they're just not always particularly polite about it. This is almost the Platonic archetype of trolling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
- krapp 12y agoI don't think that's true. Or if it is, it places no value at all on dissent itself - anyone you disagree with on the internet would be a 'troll'.
- cheald 12y agoMany people on the internet immediately minimize any argument they don't agree with as "trolling". It's easier to just call the other person a malintentioned degenerate than to actually address the points they raise.