There are very serious issues going on at the moment regarding internet trolls who take great delight in anonymously stalking and terrorising their victims like the cowards they are.
There are many definitions to describe what is increasingly impinging on the lives of many ordinary people … disagreeing with someone on a well regulated discussion forum isn’t quite on a par with the reality of the situation which imo is getting entirely out of hand.
A recent case where a young woman had to leave her life, friends and family behind her and assume a new identity under witness protection shows the way we are heading if a solution isn't found very quickly.
That is an example of the truly life changing effect that trolls can have on their victims … and it is disgraceful that it was deemed necessary for the victim to be forced into anonymity ... while the cowards who terrorised her are free to get on with their lives.
So what is an internet troll? ... at the moment it appears to be a cowardly someone who can break the law with impunity.
It was out of hand not long after facebook was launched; so about eight or nine years ago.
Any electronic conversation between two parties who don't know each other is going to run into trouble; add to that stroppy teenagers having a laugh and and few spiteful people with multiple IDs like Job had boils and what do you get?
A nice witches brew bubbling away even before the world had heard of the McCanns. So now it is imperative to "sort it" because some quasi celebrities are subjected to attack? Well if that's what it takes fair dos but one senses it will continue cos that's the human race for you; just look on here for a good cross section %£&)**#
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