When Is A Troll No Longer A Troll?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea U MAD BRO? Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com For pretty much as long as there has been INTERNET there have been people who make it their business to get in other people’s business on it... whose activities range in severity from easily ignored m8s postin’ gr8 b8 in comment threads to perpetrators of actual, unignorable, life upending harassment. We did a video a while back on the complications that arise when you confuse those two groups. This video is about that same confusion from a different perspective. At one point, the Trolls Defense was that they keep stupid people busy so they don’t ruin the internet for everyone else; they spotlight hypocrisy and distract irksome internet folk by being disingenuous rhetorical sparring partners. But today when people who are inflicting life upending harassment, issuing death threats and ganging up on people online are ALSO called trolls, how do these two groups relate to each other? Maybe there really isn’t a distinction at all. Let us know what you think in the comments below! --NERD NIGHT!!-- https://youtube.secure.force.com/EventRegistration/EventRegistrationPage?Id=Q0hMRUFEK2EwNjgwMDAwMDE2SVJHSEFBNA== ---SOURCES--- http://www.dailydot.com/via/phillips-dont-feed-trolls-antisocial-web/ ---CHECK OUT OUR MERCH!--- http://bit.ly/1U8fS1B T-Shirts Designed by: http://artsparrow.com/ ---TWEET OF THE WEEK--- https://twitter.com/sam_cook/status/777868928127295488 ---ASSET LINKS--- 00:21 Early AOL Commercial (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npzZu83AfU 00:39 The Experience of Being Trolled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHSSNyIlAps 1:02 Letters of Note https://twitter.com/lettersofnote/status/590539670141988864 4:37 Hell is Quoting Other People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzYPUP6LR5Y 4:37 How Does Deadpool Know He's a Comic Book Character? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWdnEVbH49g 5:14 Don't feed the trolls? It's not that simple http://www.dailydot.com/via/phillips-dont-feed-trolls-antisocial-web/ 6:02 Why Online Harassment Is Still Ruining Lives https://www.fastcompany.com/3046772/tech-forecast/why-online-harassment-is-still-ruining-lives-and-how-we-can-stop-it 7:14 Is The Internet a Public Place? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmZbdaqGqlc 7:14 How To Create Responsible Social Criticism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqQgAJd6Xo ---MUSIC--- https://soundcloud.com/montone-2/minimalist ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­------------------------­-­-­-­- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)