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Topic History of: The sad death of the McCann troll
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honey!oh sugar sugar.	JK2006 wrote: It's the way you Tweet what you think and also keeping your opinions and thoughts within the boundaries of decency. Nobody wants to block out the ability to communicate and, as Jim says, without the Internet my own thoughts would have been virtually silenced. But we must not let the positive aspects of new media suffocate criticism of the bad side. The other point is that some weak characters (not necessarily stupid) allow more cunning manipulators to twist them towards the dark side. The truly evil trolls don't post. They nudge others into them. I gather that is what happened to this lady. Her online "contacts" are being examined closely. It is a shame that unless you hire a firm to scour the internet for offensive messages so you can sue (as the McCanns do) and can afford the very "best" lawyers (as the McCanns do) your complaints of harassment are almost always ignored. There have been suggestions that the McCann "supporters" try to create a situation by provoking a response and then withdrawing their own tweets so it looks worse out of context. It is legal, and if you fall for it is is your own stupid fault, but in my view it is not ethical to encourage offensive posts when the aim of the job is to protect the McCanns (and particularly the children) from harm and upset. It is a great shame that people who have protested against the lack of proper investigation, and those who fight to protect the McCanns from unfair suspicion have succumbed to competitiveness and rivalry, because surely everyone shares the same aim.. for the truth to come out without suppression, and to find out what happened to the child?
In The Know (as always)	hedda wrote: fancy quoting ITK ... all the best people do ! (Gervais mainly Twits pics of his cat) Do these people not have lives to lead? How do they find the time to bother looking what someone had for breakfast? There are, for me, simply not enough hours in the day to bother wasting any of it reading all this drivel !
JK2006	It's the way you Tweet what you think and also keeping your opinions and thoughts within the boundaries of decency. Nobody wants to block out the ability to communicate and, as Jim says, without the Internet my own thoughts would have been virtually silenced. But we must not let the positive aspects of new media suffocate criticism of the bad side. The other point is that some weak characters (not necessarily stupid) allow more cunning manipulators to twist them towards the dark side. The truly evil trolls don't post. They nudge others into them. I gather that is what happened to this lady. Her online "contacts" are being examined closely.
hedda	In The Know wrote: Chris Retro wrote: What I will never understand is why people get so involved with something that is nothing to do with them such the McCann saga. It's because they can, Chris. Can you imagine any one of these people writing a coherent letter to a newspaper and having it published? Of course not. But with Twatter and other "toys of the imbeciles" they can play to their hearts desire - and they feel they have actually achieved something ! Look ... I have 100 (brain dead) followers ! fancy quoting ITK but.. looking at Twitter can be fascinating (I won't join because I think as JK does- it's a Tool Of The Devil )but it is illuminating to examine people's followers more closely, MWT for example- if you look at many of his Twitter 'friends' (I last only a few pages) they are actually the sort of trolls like this poor woman- feeding off his pedo stuff and a'ranting and a'raving about elite conspiracies etc etc. Others seem to mindlessly post links to daily newspapers as though their followers are incapable of looking up these stories themselves. One thing I've noticed : some who were active Twitterers like Stephen Fry & Ricky Gervais have really dropped off now (Gervais mainly Twits pics of his cat) But social media can be dangerous (and it was for this woman) : As Anna Racooon has shown the Jimmy Savile fiasco was hatched on a discussion board : the Cliff Richard fiasco has been bubbling along for years on the net and the Mainstream Media is now so desperate it looks to the net for tales. So while Jim may have got a point consider this : Rupert Murdoch has used his Social Media ( Fox etc) to ramp up an invasion of Iraq in 2003 : analysts says both the UK & USA would not have gone to war without his vocal support- and look where that has got us. Josef Goebbels used the Social media of the time,newspapers & radio to successful woe a nation for a bunch of madmen to take over.
Jo	andrew wrote: The world is full of sad and pathetic individuals I think this sums it up. She chose to make those comments. Someone asked her about them. She chose the outcome. The reason for a 63-year-old behaving like that in the first place probably had more to do with her final choice than any intervention by Sky news.