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Paraphrasing an article by Time Magazine's Joel Stein:
The Internet's personality has changed -- once it was like a geek with lofty ideals about the free flow of information. Now the web is a sociopath with Asperger's. [ Submitter's note: the "Sociopath with Asperger's" comment is not my addition, but a verbatim phrase in the source article ]
The people who relish their online freedom to act under influence of the online disinhibition effect are called "trolls." Trolling is, overtly, a political fight; but it has become the main tool of the alt-right, an Internet-grown reactionary movement that works for men's rights and against immigration. They derisively call their adversaries "social justice warriors" and believe that liberal interest groups purposely exploit their weaknesses to gain pity, which allows them to control the leverage of political power.
When sites are overrun by trolls, they drown out the voices of women, ethic and religious minorities, gays -- anyone who might feel vulnerable. The alt-right argues that if you can't handle opprobrium, you should just turn off your computer. But that's arguing against self-expression, something antithetical to the original values of the Internet.
The article closes with a description of an exchange between Stein and a detractor. In meeting the detractor in real-life, he was surprised by her lack of bravado, to which she responds, "The Internet is the realm of the coward. These are people who are all sound and no fury."
Stein ruminates in response, "Maybe. But maybe, in the information age, sound is as destructive as fury."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @04:55AM
Nope, cuck is used more broadly than that and has become a meme. You just want an excuse to ignore others while feeling morally superior, same as with the term "SJWs", which are real [reddit.com].
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @05:13AM
Perhaps not. My understanding was largely the same because:
A) I don't expose myself to too much of the Internet hate apparently to see it
B) I expose myself to too much of the Internet's porn to see anything other than cuck porn being advertised in the thumbnail previews.
Purely from a stastisical viewpoint, the submitter is correct. The term is more often used to describe black cock pounding middle age white pussy while the small and limpdicked husband waits to snowball her. I can't speak to the White Nationalist overtones asserted, but a definite yes on the porn. Interestingly enough.... there has been a rather large uptick in it since the election really started.
Who wants to bet that Pornhub can tell us that the largest consumers of this porn are in Red states? ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @05:29AM
Hahaha, fair enough.
Don't forget the wedding dress. That really adds to the scene.