Film at 11.
Malwebolence, the New York Times Magazine piece on Trolling.
I have my own thoughts on this, but I'd be interested in hearing comments first.
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- Charlote de Corday, a figure of the French Revolution, was a rebel against the rebellion, an individual in a war of sides. Charlotte de Corday has thus become my nom de guerre as an individual caught up in a world that speaks in borders rather than content. I am quite simply a student of philosophy and theories of government, a musician and a coffee addict, returned to my native urban New Jersey to find a place rapidly gentrifying, changing, growing--whatever you want to call it, only to move to Brooklyn and act as the other side of that coin. I am trying to make art after four years of academy, trying to feel for an ever elusive home... also trying to keep my car running. Trying to live and work and create in a way that each is copacetic to the other two. I currently write freelance and work for a newspaper in Lower Manhattan.
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"imminent death of the net predicted"--eh? Where?
Now, measures that would change the character of the internet, yes. I'm not keen on the idea of mandating constant screennames across different sites, nor am I sure how that could possibly be enforced. The approach of ignoring trolls works at the level of refusing to let drama disrupt online communities, but not when it crosses into harassment of individuals--everyone has a breaking point at which they can't just let stuff roll off their back.
The best I can think is to (1) encourage the patching of security holes, (2)devise more stringent voluntary privacy measures around keeping one's contact information off the internet (which won't stop really skilled people, but maybe lazy just-having-fun types wouldn't bother), (3) aggressively prosecute harassment that can be traced via phone records etc.
And maybe give the writer a Valium and a vacation.
What are your thoughts?
Imminent death of the net predicted / film at 11 is an old usenet joke.
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get off the internet, i'll see you in the streets.
this whole thing happens because there's too much online life and not enough real life life - for some people. part individual choice and part choice that we've made as a society, an uncomfortable collective.
changing that would be quite the monumental task.
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