Re:Trouble at the Koolaid Point
by makomk on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:00AM
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The boundaries of harassment are very blurry and tend to favour the powerful. For example, some of the campaigns against online harassers look even more like harassment than the actions they're going after people for: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/online-trolls-w... Except that because it's the press harassing people to the point of suicide, we don't see anything wrong with it.
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Re:Trouble at the Koolaid Point
by zimpenfish on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:03AM
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> we don't see anything wrong with it.
Not entirely true - the reaction in the UK to this whole incident has been quite negative from what I've seen. Then again, we're not overly happy with our press at the best of times...
Spiked are themselves a bit trollish (in the controversy-maximising sense). That said, two wrongs don't make a right.
People are not happy with the press hounding people to suicide. The Daily Mail has a nasty track record of outing LGBTQ people, for example.