Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by vcjohnson on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @06:41AM
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Do you often get death threats from people who are simply having a bad day and disagree with you? Trivialization of the horrific elements of online interaction is just as bad (if not worse) as conflating them with legitimate dissent.
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Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by bertil on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:52AM
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Yes. I ride a bike in London, and taxi drivers tend to act on it too.
I’ve been agile enough to avoid the worst, but my bike was smashed more than I can count (I use city-wide bike scheme). I’ve ended in the hospital twice: I got my front teeth smashed once; I also got my knee busted another time.
I am not trivialising threats, just arguing that putting them in context would help solve the issue — a lot more than putting thousands of teenagers in jail just because they didn’t mesure the consequence of their anger.