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Fight Trolls For The Web's Soul

  • Google, Monday, December 22, 2014 12:32 PM
Led by a disparate army of anonymous venom-spitting “trolls,” the Web is facilitating a “renaissance” in what the MIT Technology Review calls “old-school hate.” As it reports, “the struggle against hate online is so urgent and difficult that the law professor Danielle Citron … calls the Internet ‘the next battleground for civil rights.’” Fighting the scourge in Sweden, a TV show named “Troll Hunter” tries to get to the heart näthat (“Net hate”).
 

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