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It starts off with a whole lot on G Zimmerman's history of attention seeking online, but I'll skip over him, LOL.
"But the more pressing issue is there are immediate practical benefits to trolling. The way weve designed the Internet has made the old cliché Theres no such thing as bad publicity actually come true. Its now possible to monetize any kind of attention, good or badand if your gift happens to be generating the bad kind of attention, then its well within reach to make trolling into a full-time career.
Weve watched this happen, over and over again. Memories Pizza raised $800,000 by being lucky enough to be the first Indiana business to openly state they were taking advantage of their newly enacted right to discriminate against gay customers. Darren Wilson got almost $500,000 for shooting Mike Brown. Growing wary of their reputation as a fundraising site for bigots, GoFundMe pulled the plug on the homophobic Sweet Cakes bakers campaign to pay off their fine, only for them to immediately hop onto another knockoff crowdfunding site. GoFundMes new policy has prevented Kim Davis from starting a campaign there, but right-wing political action site ActRight has taken up the slack by allowing people to donate directly to her.
Some of this is simply the result of polarization thanks to political discourse bypassing centrist gatekeepers, the same netroots that made such a big difference in the 2008 Obama campaign."
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/29/the-big-business-of-internet-bigotry.html
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)The Mens Rights Activists of the modern Internet, unlike their counterparts from more innocent times, dont need to sell any products like books or videos or deliver services like speaking engagements to make a living. They can charge their fans directly for the purpose of running websites to troll women online. The more rabidly zealous they get and the more they alienate the mainstream, the more devoted their hardcore fans become."
OneGrassRoot
(22,917 posts)Thanks, bettyellen!