http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/technology/web-trolls-winning-as-incivility-increases.html?_r=0 →

The quote is frightening and sad (even allowing for “these days”):

As long as the Internet keeps operating according to a click-based economy, trolls will maybe not win, but they will always be present,The faster that the whole media system goes, the more trolls have a foothold to stand on. They are perfectly calibrated to exploit the way media is disseminated these days.

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