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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 15

    The science of trolling, shaming mobs, and other online bad behavior. https://www.positive.news/2018/science/32375/why-good-people-turn-bad-online/ … via @positivenewsuk

    10:47 AM - 15 Apr 2018
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      1. Paula Wright‏ @SexyIsntSexist May 29
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        "There is overwhelming evidence that women and members of ethnic minority groups are disproportionately the target of Twitter abuse". But this isn't true.

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      1. Ken Smithmier‏ @kensmithmier Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Good people don't turn bad just cause they go online. Bad people are bad online cause they're able to be, they like it, they have no accountability. Jerks are everywhere, social media just lets them out of their basements more often.

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      2. Contrivialarian‏ @ReidMushroom Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Has anyone studied not whether women and minorities were more subject to trolling but whether stupid commenters were?

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      3. Paula Wright‏ @SexyIsntSexist May 29
        Replying to @ReidMushroom @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Yes. Women and men receive equal abuse. Ethnicity not a significant variable. Tribe is. Females are just as likely to abuse as males. People on social media are like a marauding army without a General.

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      1. Tometo Jemeto  🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 👍‏ @TometoJemeto Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        >implying trolling is bad.

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      1. Theodore Bolha‏ @TheodoreBolha Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Sometimes I think people are too quick to call people trolls. It's like thinking a person that's standing in the doorway, in your way, is doing it on purpose. People get frustrated with others and use the "troll" label to justify their exiting the uncomfortable conversation.

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      2. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah Apr 16
        Replying to @9_Virtues @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        You’re proving his point.

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      1. Roscoe Shaw‏ @RoscoeReport Apr 16
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Sticks and stones may break my bones but electrons don't hurt me. I find it quite easy to just log off. More people, esp victims of so-called "online bullying", should try that. It is very liberating.

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      1. Michael K Bryden‏ @MichaelKBryden Apr 16
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        @Tnbryden you should follow @PositiveNewsUK

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      1. HugoMe‏ @HugoMe Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @nikitakarachoi @PositiveNewsUK

        This describes online interactions as simple bad /good impulsions. Reality of exchanges is much more complex, as individual psychology has much more impact in bilateral discussions than a bootstrapping collective phenomenon would.

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      1. tony ridler‏ @tony_ridler Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        #Trolls are the new #NeoNazis-#Hex is the new #Anathema-#PedoPhillia is the new hate-crime, against minorities☣

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      1. Pathfinder‏ @Pathfinder4545 Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Had Goebbels, Stalin, and Qi Benyu access to the tools and techniques described in this article, the world would not look as it does today. The behind-the-scenes manipulation of basic human interactions described is not good. It simply eliminates dissent from the party line.

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      1. CreamyCentrist‏ @CreamyCentrist Apr 15
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        I'm both interested and lazy so I read the beginning. Does this article put out the idea that white men have it easiest online and then continue with the topic?

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      1. Gherrin‏ @BurntChestHair Apr 15
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        but strife is sustenance 🙃

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