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Old 02-09-2016, 18:44   #118
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Re: Police to get tough on internet trolls.

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
People can be safer online but you can't always stop it. This is even more true when you don't have the cloak of anonymity because your online presence is related to your career as was the case with many of these female gamers who've been driven out of their homes in some cases as trolls post their addresses online. They can find out about you, your employer and set out to destroy your life. Even then it can't be nice to open your phone every hour and see a flood of e-mails, tweets or messages with graphically nasty threats.

Here is another example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/wom...deo-games.html



These people ruin lives.
Which is why I mentioned those who are, for example, celebrities or high profile figures who are far more easily traced and hence more vulnerable and yes, can very well have their lives ruined by sad inadequates who get a kick out of this sort of thing. They'd clearly not be the victims of what I referred to as 'name calling', however, but something far more serious. They'd also be in a very small minority.

For by far the vast majority of people, if someone appears on social media or something and threatens them they'd be wise not to bat an eyelid because they can be pretty confident that it's far more likely their abuser is a sad, pathetic little individual for whom threats/abuse are an escape from their inadequacy, than someone who has the inclination/ability to turn their online threats into reality. If we're not going to believe that then we really ought not to use the internet or leave our front doors...
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