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Old 02-09-2016, 17:42   #117
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Re: Police to get tough on internet trolls.

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
All the more reason for inhabitors of the social media world to be a lot more responsible what personal and identifying information they present to all and sundry I'd have thought. If I went out every day without shutting/locking my doors I don't think I'd get a lot of sympathy if I was burgled. If I broadcast all sorts of personal information to the world, I might expect a similar lack of sympathy if I wound up getting stalked or threatened by a nutter who knows where I live or work. The world shouldn't be like that but it is sadly and we all know it don't we, so why are so many people so blase about what they put online and why are they surprised when the haters appear and get very nasty indeed?
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

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Zoe Quinn, 27, was recently the victim of a spiteful attack by an ex-boyfriend. He published a blog post naming a list of men she has allegedly slept with, a number of whom are video games journalists. Quinn, I should point out, is a video games developer.

This one act has led to Quinn receiving death and rape threats, having to move out of her house and even become a victim of revenge porn from another ex.
These people ruin lives.
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