Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet

Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by lingben on Thursday July 16, 2015 @03:31PM (#9899388)

Sure, but some things are self evident and it makes no sense to waste public funds on them.

If you hurt my feelings, that's neither a criminal nor civil offense.

"Sticks and stones..." silly me, I thought we all learned this in elementary school

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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by keedot on Thursday July 16, 2015 @03:56PM (#9899531)

And yet teenagers still commit suicide because of online harassment. So words do hurt, and can even kill.

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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by oldmanjay on Thursday July 16, 2015 @08:47PM (#9900773)

Words may hurt. No one denied this. Saying words killed because of the actions a person took after being hurt is incredibly disingenuous. Only the person who took the action is responsible.

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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by keedot on Friday July 17, 2015 @11:32AM (#9903195)

That's a fairly ignorant view on mental state and peer group pressures on developing adolescent minds.

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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by lingben on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:11PM (#9899619)

I didn't say they don't. I said that 'hurt feelings' are not grounds for a criminal nor civil legal case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs

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