[Discussion] The Inconceivable Power of Trolls in Social Media

This is a follow-on to the nearly two year old topic "Trouble at the Kool-Aid Point." The intention is to provide a place to discuss the unreasonable power social media trolls have over women and minorities, with a primary focus on video games (though other examples are certainly welcome).

Demosthenes wrote:

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This is my surprised face.

If it looks like my normal face, that's because I'm not even a little bit surprised. The extent of my surprise is less than the Planck length.

BadKen wrote:

This is my surprised face.

If it looks like my normal face, that's because I'm not even a little bit surprised. The extent of my surprise is less than the Planck length.

The extent of my surprise makes the Planck length look like a country mile.

I don't know what thread to put this in, because right now this stuff is leaking out all over, particularly for this person. But:

Video surfaces of Milo Yiannopoulos defending pedophilia, ACU board reportedly not consulted on CPAC invite

There are, as you may recall from the GG days, plenty of other times he said equally heinous things, so hopefully this spotlight will send him scurrying back into the shadows.

Well, I can hope.

Gremlin wrote:

I don't know what thread to put this in, because right now this stuff is leaking out all over, particularly for this person. But:

Video surfaces of Milo Yiannopoulos defending pedophilia, ACU board reportedly not consulted on CPAC invite

There are, as you may recall from the GG days, plenty of other times he said equally heinous things, so hopefully this spotlight will send him scurrying back into the shadows.

Well, I can hope.

This has been known for some time.

Various people have been trying to get *any* attention on this but it just doesnt get traction.

It doesn't get traction because fans of Milo never have sincere moral outrage, only affectations of it.

Oh, we knew about it. But now the national news has, for some reason, decided to start paying attention.

We'll see how long that lasts.

Gremlin wrote:

Oh, we knew about it. But now the national news has, for some reason, decided to start paying attention.

We'll see how long that lasts.

The Blaze is national news?

Gremlin wrote:

I don't know what thread to put this in, because right now this stuff is leaking out all over, particularly for this person. But:

Video surfaces of Milo Yiannopoulos defending pedophilia, ACU board reportedly not consulted on CPAC invite

There are, as you may recall from the GG days, plenty of other times he said equally heinous things, so hopefully this spotlight will send him scurrying back into the shadows.

Well, I can hope.

No way in hell that happens. If you were to try and use it as evidence with right wingers that he's toxic, these are rape culture ideas that they would probably support. Remember, it's only pedophilia when it's an older man and a girl. When an older woman does it with a boy, he's given high fives and comments on her hotness are made.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

It doesn't get traction because fans of Milo never have sincere moral outrage, only affectations of it.

I mean, most of his supporters initially came from 4chan, where they tried to defend child porn as "free speech". Most channers probably don't see a problem with it at all, even as they continued to suggest multiple GG targets were involved in it (and probably helped spread Pizzagate as a way to drum up more outrage).

Tyops wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

Oh, we knew about it. But now the national news has, for some reason, decided to start paying attention.

We'll see how long that lasts.

The Blaze is national news?

Nah. I just linked that because it broke late Sunday night and I've been trying not to link to a bunch of random twitter posts. The difference this time is that the twitter posts of people just discovering it belong to reporters, editors and anchors, including some conservatives...plus a bunch more saying we-told-you-so.
(And speaking of 8chan, read this thread.)

The real acid test will be if its still a news story today and what CPAC's response will be.

I admit, I may be engaging in wishful thinking as I hope he finally faces some consequences.

(Zoe had this to say)

Just saw a video of some of Milo's supporters at a college campus. I feel bad that I was a nerdy white boy in undergrad (still am white and nerdy, but at least out of college!), because they are the stereotypes of scrawny pale white males who blame not having a girlfriend on society and the social norms that keep free speech down.

(And in this world, "free speech" means "hate speech", which apparently is ok.)

These are the people that are keyboard warriors, and trolls in real life. They think they are morally superior and look down at others because they try to squash horrible and bigoted viewpoints. The fact that they cling to a piece of sh*t like Milo is not hard to grasp - he's an intentional instigator and even dresses like one to rile people up simply because he can. Milo says things in real life that they usually are afraid to. He's their outlet.

Milo deserves to be launched into the sun, and his supporters deserve to get ridicule for years.

Tyops wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

Oh, we knew about it. But now the national news has, for some reason, decided to start paying attention.

We'll see how long that lasts.

The Blaze is national news?

It's definitely a part of the Conservative news that, yes, gets read nationally. It's not CBS but it's the conservatives paying attention now.

garion333 wrote:

It's definitely a part of the Conservative news that, yes, gets read nationally. It's not CBS but it's the conservatives paying attention now.

Thanks. I wasnt aware of this.

CPAC does have a line they won't cross!

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I mean, it's something they could have found out about Yiannopoulos with about five minutes of Googling. And they were A-OK with all of the other stuff they knew he said. But they do have some limits, when someone shines a spotlight on them.

Bet this still gets blamed on "social justice snowflakes" despite it being a Republican led thing.

pyxistyx wrote:

Bet this still gets blamed on "social justice snowflakes" despite it being a Republican led thing.

Plenty of calls of "censorship" already happening... though most of the places I'm seeing it are blaming it on establishment idiots taking a joke too seriously.

pyxistyx wrote:

Bet this still gets blamed on "social justice snowflakes" despite it being a Republican led thing.

Winter is coming.

https://twitter.com/elainaplott/stat...

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As the first commenter noted, apparently there is a line at breitbart.

I would feel better about Breitbart developing a moral stance if the person who led the site before they developed such scruples didn't have the ear of Supreme Leader Trump.

Regardless of the questionably moral vacuum at Breitbart, it will please me greatly to see that f*cker dumped to the curb.

Also I wonder how Simon and Schuster are feeling about that book deal right about now.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

I would feel better about Breitbart developing a moral stance if the person who led the site before they developed such scruples didn't have the ear of Supreme Leader Trump.

Or if they had done something when he first made those statements ages ago.

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Quintin_Stone wrote:

Wow. He mad. Here's what he had to say on Twitter.

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Quintin_Stone wrote:

Wow. He mad. Here's what he had to say on Twitter.

Spoiler:

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BUT MAH FREEZE PEACHES!

BUT MAH FREEZE PEACHES!

ROFL at the Twitter suspension.

Sure, quote isn't edit, but in this case, I don't care.