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Is it too late to stop the trolls trampling over our entire political discourse?
Curated:
23/04/2016 from
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/13/trolls-trampling-political-discourse-abuse
my notes ( ? )
The potential – or, sadly more accurately, theoretical – political power of social media is to provide an important public forum in which those of diverse opinions can freely interact, rather than living in political enclaves inhabited only by those who reinforce what everyone already believes. The truth is that those entrenched political divisions are cemented by trolls who – without conspiracy or coordination – pillory, insult or even threaten those with dissenting opinions... A leftwinger who is under almost obsessive personal attack from rightwingers or vice versa may find that separating the abusers from those who simply disagree becomes difficult... Online debate is revolutionary... But there seems little doubt that the political conversation is becoming more toxic. And it is democracy that is suffering.
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