🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 10:09:20 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> "Peter J Ross"  wrote in message news:slrnm9dvu5.6qq.pjr@homeridae.org...
> 
> Hey PJR, your type is spreading to other parts of the internet... your brand
> of stalking and libel-posting isn't just for Usenet any more... here's the
> story from the New York Times:
> 
> The typical anonymous, unregistered stalking and libel-posting troll is not
> a new phenomenon on Topix Forums... the site has had repeated problems with
> anonymous, unregistered "flame trolls", who stalk and post what can verge
> into the territory of libel, for example:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/small-town-gossip-moves-to-the-web-anonymous-and-vicious.html
> 
> "...a social media Web site called Topix, where they write and read
> startlingly negative posts, all cloaked in anonymity, about one another. And
> in Dee’s Place, people are not happy... called Topix a 'cesspool of
> character assassination.' [...] In rural America, older, poorer remote
> population lagged the rest of the country in embracing the Internet, the
> growing use of social media is raising familiar concerns about bullying and
> privacy... hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment in
> communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is a novel
> concept. 'Something about rural culture seems to make people want to have
> conversations in public,' Topix, a site lightly trafficked in cities, enjoys
> a dedicated and growing following across the Ozarks, Appalachia and much of
> the rural South, establishing an unexpected niche in communities of a few
> hundred or few thousand people..."
> 
> And, of course, there's a difference between free speech and libel. The
> posts made here and elsewhere on Topix.com by the trolls you asked about
> generally tend to fall into the latter category

ME's old stomping grounds, Topix Forums.....!