I’m not usually that vocal online unless I’m bored or sick. In this case I’m getting ready for surgery next week, so I’ve been too wired to write or do too many readings, and guess what I stumbled onto in Twitter? Carlos Maza, a reporter, LGBTQ activist, Gay, and Latino man has been having trouble…
It seems like any site these days that isn’t moderated, is being spammed by Trump supporters. Many are trying to pass their posts off as original thoughts, but this isn’t true. If you want to be able to track where their ideas are coming from, here is a handy list of websites they frequent. This…
For some time, I’ve been having a nagging suspicion. When I look back on the day it became clear that the Chateau Heartiste (formerly Roissy in D.C.) approved of the more insane brand of “white” nationalism seemingly popular among the commenters there, I felt that something wasn’t quite right. Since then, I’ve visited from time…
I’m an African American woman on the internet, and I don’t have a troll problem. I don’t have keyboard wannabe psychos, perverts, or other brands of idiots plaguing me. I used to. A long time ago, wasting time on Usenet, I picked up a couple of barnacles. They used their freedom of speech to harass…
It’s a story as old as, well, the Internet. A woman is a video game journalist. She receives rape and death threats. The end. But in a delightful new take on the old story, said video game journalist has reached out to the mothers of her harassers, just to let them know what their sons…