---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Not to worry. The way things are going one of these mornings you'll wake up, go turn on your computer and find you can't log onto FFL. In fact you can't log onto anything. Then there is a knock on your door and it's your neighbor you haven't seen in months asking you if your Internet is down too. Turns out talking around the neighborhood it's down for everyone. The cyberwar has gone nuclear. Far fetched? Well, here in the Bay Area the FBI is trying to find who is cutting fiber cable lines sometimes knocking out whole communities. The battlefield between nations is now the Internet which grew unexpectedly a little too fast to be pro-active about it. But then any outsider logging into FFL would probably think they'd stumbled into some teen chat room. Where are the adults? You're too hard on yourself dude. On 07/18/2015 05:27 AM, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Awarding bullies with attention is as much a part of the problem as the bullying itself. OMG! HE JUST POSTED THE SAME RANT HE'S POSTED A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE! I MUST LASH OUT AT HIM IN RETURN!!!!! Why not just ignore it? It's not like real life fists on a school playground. It's just words on a screen. Online bullies wield power because people give it to them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : There is some lot of truth to this article. Rick has certainly seen this on his FFL group at yahoo. -JaiGuruYou "The foundations of the Internet were laid on free expression, but the founders just did not understand how effective their creation would be for the coordination and amplification of harassing behavior. Or that the users who were the biggest bullies would be rewarded with attention for their behavior. Or that young people would come to see this bullying as the norm — as something to emulate in an effort to one-up each other. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which was founded to help protect Internet civil liberties, concluded this year: “The sad irony is that online harassers misuse the fundamental strength of the Internet as a powerful communication medium to magnify and co-ordinate their actions and effectively silence and intimidate others.”" ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <j_alexander_stanley@...> mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... wrote : Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning t... Sites like Reddit can’t rely on better rules to eliminate harassment. View on www.washingtonpos... Preview by Yahoo
