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bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 05:22 PM Oct 2015

Interesting: The Big Business of Internet Bigotry

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 we’ve designed the Internet has made the old cliché “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” actually come true. It’s now possible to monetize any kind of attention, good or bad—and if your gift happens to be generating the bad kind of attention, then it’s well within reach to make trolling into a full-time career.

We’ve 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. GoFundMe’s 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

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Interesting: The Big Business of Internet Bigotry (Original Post) bettyellen Oct 2015 OP
And for the women: bettyellen Oct 2015 #1
Good article. OneGrassRoot Oct 2015 #2
kick! bettyellen Oct 2015 #3
 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
1. And for the women:
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 05:32 PM
Oct 2015
"Angry anti-feminist video game nerds crowdfunded a documentary attacking Anita Sarkeesian to the tune of an $8,000/month paycheck. The film had a grand total of nine viewers at its opening screening, but the two creators were nonetheless able to make an above-average living for a year for doing it.

The Men’s Rights Activists of the modern Internet, unlike their counterparts from more innocent times, don’t 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."
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