Weev's explanation was just one more leveling up in my discredit/disinfo program: DMCA takedowns. “She issued DMCA takedowns for sites that criticized her.” Yes, that one even made it’s way into a GQ magazine article not long ago, when the writer Sanjiv Bhattacharya interviewed weev and asked about - get this - the “ethics” of doxxing me.
#SECOND LIFE TROLLS FREE#
In my specific case, it was my alleged threat to a free and open internet. How? By unleashing a mind virus guaranteed to push emotional buttons for your real, NOT-troll audience. They exploit a vulnerability in the brains of your current and potential listeners. Typically, the hacker trolls are technically-talented, super smart white men. The most damaging troll/haters are some of the most powerful people (though they self-describe as outcasts). (there isn't, of course, but let’s not let that get in the way.)Īnd the trolls aren’t stupid. Or, as I was referred to yet again just yesterday by my favorite troll/hater/harasser: “a charlatan”. I mean, could there be ANY other explanation for your visibility? But the sex-not-merit meme is just their warm-up, the lowest-hanging-fruit in a discredit/disinfo campaign.īecause what the haters MOST want the world to know is this: what you’re serving your audience? It’s NOT EVEN ACTUAL KOOLAID. Actually TWO kinds: an Attention/Fame Whore and an Actual Have Sex In Exchange For Jobs, Good Reviews, Book Deals Whore. But not the sex-worker kind, no, you are the Bad Kind of Whore. Not that there aren’t a few deserving women and why can’t you be more like THEM but no, you are NOT one of them. The disinformation follows a pattern so predictable today it’s almost dull: first, you obviously “fucked” your way into whatever role enabled your undeserved visibility. There is only one reliably useful weapon for the trolls to stop the danger you pose and/or to get max lulz: discredit you. Because the Worst Possible Thing has happened: as a result of those attacks, you are NOW serving Victim-Flavored Koolaid.Īnd Victim-Flavored Koolaid is the most dangerous substance on earth, apparently. And now, since you stuck around through the first wave of threats, you are now a much BIGGER problem. But today, many women online - you women who are far braver than I am - you stick around. It’s a good place to start, those threats, because you might simply vanish once those threats include your family. You know, rape, dismemberment, the usual. And by “you”, I mean “you the server of Koolaid.” You who must be stopped. Today, Twitter (and this isn’t a complaint about Twitter, it’s about what Twitter enables) is the troll’s best weapon for attacking you. Twitter boosts signal power with head-snapping speed and strength. Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier. The time from troll-has-an-idea to troll-mobilizes-brutal-assault has shrunk from weeks to minutes. Today, they, along with their friends, fans, followers, and a zoo of anonymous sock puppet accounts are. Most of the master trolls weren’t active on Twitter in 2007. The very best/worst trolls can even make the non-sociopaths believe "for the lulz" is itself a noble cause.īut I actually got off easy, then. Master trolls can build an online army out of the well-intended, by appealing to The Cause (more on that later). They’re doing it out of pure malice, “for the lulz.” And those doing it for the lulz are masters at manipulating public perception. They actually believe in a cause, and they believe you (or rather the Koolaid you’re serving) threatens that cause.īut the Koolaid-Point-driven attacks are usually started by (speculating, educated guess here, not an actual psychologist, etc) sociopaths. Some of those who seek to stop and/or ruin you are misguided/misinformed but well-intended. A standard goal, in troll culture, I soon learned, is to cause “personal ruin”. And if they cannot stop you, they can at least ruin your quality of life.
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