Meeting the Troll
2012-09-25 16:21:57.281304+02 by petronius 0 comments
An interesting and somewhat scary link from BoingBoing: Irish blogger Leo Traynor quit Twitter this summer when he started to get ferocious anti-semitic messages from a troll. When the troll started sending threats directly to his home, he began to panic. When he finally tracked the guy down, he was in for a big, big surprise. It all raises a question about how much of the animus we see on the net is real, and how much arises from a far less quantifiable place.