Confronted by the latest trolling scandal, Sophie said to
me: ‘Of course, we just used to shout at the radio or the tellie when people
said things that annoyed us.’
And it’s true that the situation has been transformed by the
availability via social media of direct access to the targets.
So, while threatening dire retribution on some public figure
is horrible in all circumstances, at least in our own lounge rooms no one else
is affected (aside from our own immediate family, who know already what loud-mouthed
bigots we are).
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