July 17, 2015

Internet Culture, Bullying and #DoNotFeedTheTrolls

It was not quite a year ago when I posted about the seemingly downward spiral that post-modern online culture is taking (Has Gamer Culture Gone Out of Control?) and linked to Why the Trolls Will Always Win on Wired.com.

Now, following a very controversial run as interim CEO of Reddit, Ellen Pao has published an opinion piece on the Washington Post: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet

Perhaps the Internet is not the Great Equalizer (Business Week circa 1996), as earlier speculated, but rather anonymity has brought out the worse of humanity to the online world?