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Good points, but they don't help much if you're active victim of trolling. E.g. try to sleep at night if they doxxed your children :-( Technology affects cultu
by valas 12y ago
Good points, but they don't help much if you're active victim of trolling. E.g. try to sleep at night if they doxxed your children :-(
Technology affects culture (and vice-a-versa). Trolling is/was rampant in blogosphere and Twitter, but I have impression that Facebook and Google+, who both enforce much hated real-names policies, have less of a trolling component.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoI guess it's because Facebook and Google+ are built mostly around reinforcing meatspace relationships. It's harder to be an asshole if your family, friends and cow-orkers read your comments.
- pmjordan 12y agoYou'd be surprised how happily people will make abusive and hateful comments on sites with facebook comments.
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- pjc50 12y agoThe real-names policy is itself a vector of "trolling", especially transphobia and homophobia; when it was instituted on Facebook some people took it upon themselves to report drag queens and transpeople in very large numbers.