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Amy Schumer says trolls' backlash over Barbie casting shows she’s right for role. Amy Schumer has defended her credentials to play Barbie, “an important and evolving icon”, pointing to backlash as evidence of why she would be a great choice.

Amy Schumer says trolls' backlash over Barbie casting shows she’s right for role

The announcement on Saturday that Schumer was in negotiations to play the lead in Mattel’s debut movie was met with some criticism online, with some complaining she did not meet the physical standards embodied by the plastic doll. “Barbie is the definition of perfection,” complained a writer for a website called Barstool Sports that bills itself as being “by the common man; for the common man”. “Mattel is completely ruining her image by letting Amy Schumer be a Barbie.” A real woman with Barbie’s proportions would purportedly not be able to lift her head, nor walk on two legs. Schumer acknowledged criticism of her selection in a post to Instagram on Tuesday night. ABC reporter shreds Milo Yiannopoulos: ‘You’re an idiot … What grade are you in?’

Women Can't Talk About Sports on the Internet Without Receiving Threats of Sexual Violence. It's March, which means that the fanfare surrounding the wildly popular college basketball tournament March Madness has hit a fever pitch.

Women Can't Talk About Sports on the Internet Without Receiving Threats of Sexual Violence

For some sports fans, however, the hullaballoo comes with a side of sexual harassment. Actress Ashley Judd, who has been active in Hollywood for more than two decades, is also a die-hard University of Kentucky Wildcats fan. While watching her team play the University of Arkansas Razorbacks on Sunday, Judd posted a since-deleted tweet that suggested the Razorbacks were playing dirty — an act that apparently triggered an avalanche of online abuse, much of which was sexual in nature. Judd then retweeted one of the messages, from a user whose account is no longer active: But that wasn't all. Curt Schilling Tweets About Daughter Gabby - Business Insider. Psychology's answer to trolling and online abuse.

Do we each harbour a dark passenger?

Psychology's answer to trolling and online abuse

A malevolent psychopath? A fragile narcissist? Contrary to popular belief, decades of psychological research shows that anyone is capable of aggression, cruelty and violence. Online disinhibition and the psychology of trolling. In everyday life, decorum dictates that certain things just don't happen.

Online disinhibition and the psychology of trolling

Funerals, even for divisive figures tend to go by with solemn respect. Compare this with a recent example of online trolling at its most extreme: In 2011, a Reading man was jailed for raiding the Facebook tribute pages of a 14 year old girl who had committed suicide, filling it with crass jokes and insults. TROLLING Online commenting: the age of rage. For a while after his first TV series was broadcast in 2009, comedian Stewart Lee was in the habit of collecting and filing some of the comments that people made about him on web pages and social media sites.

TROLLING Online commenting: the age of rage

He did a 10-minute Google trawl most days for about six months and the resultant collected observations soon ran to dozens of pages. If you read those comments now as a cumulative narrative, you begin to fear for Stewart Lee. A good third of the posts fantasised about violence being done to the comic, most of the rest could barely contain the extent of their loathing. This is a small, representative selection: Can Lindy West’s ‘This American Life’ Segment Make the Internet Nicer? Just about every writer whose work is posted on the Internet has to deal with the bane of the comments section, but for Lindy West, a former Jezebel staffer who currently writes for publications like GQ and The Guardian, the comments section has become a war zone.

Can Lindy West’s ‘This American Life’ Segment Make the Internet Nicer?

She’s candid and funny, unafraid to criticize rape jokes or explain how airlines discriminate against fat people, and her fearlessness has made her one of the most notable voices on the Internet. According to this week’s episode of This American Life, “If You Don’t Have Something Nice to Say, Say It in ALL CAPS” — along with plenty of other writing West has done — it has also made her a magnet for trolls. As she puts it in this must-listen-to episode, “I said I think a lot of male comedians are careless about rape,” and then we hear her read just what some of the comments said: “I love how the bitch complaining about rape is the exact kind of bitch that would never be raped.”

Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie. When the only thing you’re reverent of is irreverence, you eventually get chan culture—people who shout racial slurs and think they’ve accomplished something in the name of 'free speech.' Shooting people is wrong.

Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie

I want to get this out of the way. There's a push in Sweden to deal with Internet trolls. Sweden has a high Internet penetration rate — almost 95 percent of people can access high-speed conections.

There's a push in Sweden to deal with Internet trolls

It's not surprising, then, that a lot of Swedes spend large amounts of time on the Internet — alongside countless Internet trolls. Internet trolls plague most any forum that offers people the chance to comment. But according to reporter Adrian Chen, there is a push in Sweden to confront such online hatred. Body found in hotel room thought to be of woman accused of McCann trolling. A body, believed to be that of a woman accused of trolling the family of missing schoolgirl Madeleine McCann online, was found in a hotel room in Leicester on Saturday, police have said.

Body found in hotel room thought to be of woman accused of McCann trolling

Brenda Leyland, 63, was confronted by a television news reporter over the claim that she used Twitter to post a series of comments attacking the McCanns , whose daughter disappeared in Portugal in 2007. She was said to have left her home after the exchange last week about the claims. But no direct link can be made between the incident and her death, which officers said was not being treated as suspicious. Gerry McCann calls for example to made of ‘vile’ internet trolls. The father of Madeleine McCann has called for an example to be made of “vile” internet trolls who have been targeting the family.

Gerry McCann calls for example to made of ‘vile’ internet trolls

Gerry McCann said he had grave concerns about letting his nine-year-old twins use the internet after receiving threats of violence and kidnapping. The comments, in an interview with the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, came after it emerged that police were looking at a dossier of abuse posted on Twitter, Facebook and chat forums. McCann, whose daughter Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007, said he and his wife Kate did not read such material because it was too upsetting. He also blamed the press for inciting trolls, renewing his calls for the new industry-backed regulator Ipso to be scrapped and replaced by an official body established by royal charter.

Internet trolls are also real-life trolls. My brother and I have a childhood history of internet trolling under our belts. Innocent enough, yes – but disruptive nonetheless. From the same room at our parents’ house, we’d play Yahoo! Graffiti(the internet’s version of Pictionary). The word was “dinosaur” and it was his turn to draw. He’d illustrate a beautifully elaborate rainbow. Internet troll personality study: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism. Medioimages/Photodisc In the past few years, the science of Internet trollology has made some strides.

Last year, for instance, we learned that by hurling insults and inciting discord in online comment sections, so-called Internet trolls (who are frequently anonymous) have a polarizing effect on audiences, leading to politicization, rather than deeper understanding of scientific topics. That’s bad, but it’s nothing compared with what a new psychology paper has to say about the personalities of trolls themselves.

The research, conducted by Erin Buckels of the University of Manitoba and two colleagues, sought to directly investigate whether people who engage in trolling are characterized by personality traits that fall in the so-called Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others). Why do Internet trolls troll? They might be sadists.

As an Internet writer, I have seen no end to the cruelty that stems from the promise of anonymity. For seemingly benign articles, I have attracted the foulest vitriol from hundreds of commenters, calling me ignorant, stupid, unqualified and more profane nicknames than I care to recall. Message boards like Reddit and 4chan attract the truly evil, where entire message threads exist to belittle and berate, or to raise opinions that are intentionally unpopular for their bigotry and violence (such as the subreddit that seriously addresses the benefits of rape).

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Politic365 editor-in-chief Kristal High, left, with US Rep. Bobby Rush and another telecom advocate. Photo via Flickr user CongressmanBobbyRush Have you ever read the comment section of a blog post or news article and thought, Damn, these trolls must be paid by someone? PAID INTERNET TROLLS. EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corporate propaganda. Twitter troll unmasked: Father of six who is one of Britain's vilest internet trolls exposed after posting sick jokes about Hillsborough disaster.

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