cyber-bullying

Calling out trolls from the cave

Media / September 12, 2012 / 4 minutes of reading

Amid all the brouhaha about trolling, trolls and what is to be done about them, one simple fact has been mostly overlooked. And that is at least in its more extreme forms, trolling is already illegal. You only have to look at Part 10.6 of the Criminal Code. That part of the code provides that a […]

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Baiters, haters and spivs

Media / April 12, 2012 / 4 minutes of reading

In the online edition of Melbourne-based publication King’s Tribune last month, editors Jane Gilmore and Justin Shaw came to a radical decision. They resolved – after a few months of earnest consideration was capped by one post of anonymous, misogynist bilge too many – to turn comments on their website ”off”. Given the magazine deals mostly

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