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It's all fun and games until Twitter turns nasty
The immediacy and reach of social media can be empowering, but when it's used purely for harassment the flaws of the system are revealed, as too many have recently discovered, writes Sarah Malik.
There's a reason why it's advised to avoid religion and politics in polite company. Add self-appointed punditry and social media to the fusion and you have a recipe for immediate combustion.
Get together with any group of friends and you will hear war stories on friendships strained and out-of-control online debates that veer into a blood sport.
A recent piece in the New York Times suggested 69 per cent of social media users have witnessed digital cruelty. Moderators at the The Guardian recently considered whether online anonymity should be an option rather than the default position in commentary after noting an eruption of particularly vile contributions around controversial topics, like gender issues.
Barely a week goes by without a Twitter controversy that wrecks careers and even destroy lives, from the hilarious to the tragic. Who could forget the tragi-comedy that was Weiner-gate and most recently Botham-gate that forced spluttering explanations on why public Twitter accounts had been plastered with mysterious genitalia, the former that derailed a promising political career.
Most recently Robin Williams' daughter was forced to quit Twitter after trolls hounded her online, and earlier this year the suicide of TV personality Charlotte Dawson shocked Australia amid reports of Twitter bullying. Disturbingly women seem to be the most common target of these attacks.
The swift brutality of internet campaigns can also claim high profile scalps, with Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton earlier this month quitting after coming under fire when he snapped responding to unprecedented internet trolling after writing a searing piece on the carnage in Gaza.
Alan Moran from the right-wing think tank, Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) was reportedly given the sack after allegedly tweeting "Is there ever anything but evil coming from Islam?"
Perhaps a little more strident than the IPA's usual fare.
The online world has become inescapably woven into our social experiences and the way we process events in the 24-hour news age. For the punter unsure how to deal with it all, there have spouted a corresponding multitude of pieces advising on navigating social media and argument in the internet age from losing friends on Facebook over political differences, to dealing with online trolls, and cautionary warnings on the end of the columnist golden age.
#firstworldproblem, right? The immediacy of the internet means no more filters between your own thoughts and the world, or you and the object of your disdain.
The lack of filters is not an entirely negative. In the case of public figures, tweeting, Facebook, live radio and TV blunders can provide a delicious insight into a personality outside a perfectly crafted PR image. When it comes to the crazy and entertaining, you don't get better than Clive Palmer, in hot water over his most recent bizarre outburst labelling the Chinese "mongrels" on ABC talk show Q&A. It follows Palmer United party cohort Jacqui Lambie, who seems to have taken a leaf from the Clive book of inappropriate comments, with her oversharing of her partner preferences on radio.
I can't help but feel this is almost a flip side of a timid age where public figures and even private individuals unleash after being constrained in a world of tightly scripted image building and the niceties forced in IRL (internet speak for "in real life") encounters.
But does the free-for-all have any limits?
Criticism is healthy. A hilarious send-up or a spot on critique furthers and enhances debate, provides room for growth and the contestation and banter of wits. Social media and blogging spaces in particular are powerful ways for minority communities to create counter communities against oppressive dominant discourses and empowering spaces for voices not traditionally heard.
You can see this with the creation of Facebook groups like A Man's hijab, an internal send-up of gender double standards and the Lakemba mannequin man, lampooning a bizarre article in the Daily Telegraph trading on tired stereotypes of the Muslim community and Lakemba, in Sydney's south-west.
But it's when commentary get vicious, repetitive and personal, with smear attacks masquerading as "critiques" veering on harassment that it seems to go beyond making a point once. The freedom of speech to make a critique should not assume the critique needs to be accepted or responded to and its aim shouldn't be the trashing and destruction of the person who is the subject of the critique.
This seems to be attack on the right of free speech itself. Those privileged in this give and take don't seem to be the minority voices, but the loudest bullies.
If going cold turkey online doesn't appeal, perhaps the most apt advice comes from the unlikely Taylor Swift and her latest hit, "Haters gonna hate. You just gotta shake it off".
If that fails, consider taking the disturbances as a perverse compliment, in the style of Oscar Wilde who embraced controversy with the droll riposte: "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Sarah Malik is Sydney-based journalist and writer. You can follow her on Twitter @sarahbmalik or her website sarahbmalik.com. View her full profile here.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, community-and-society
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27 Aug 2014 1:09:26pm
But what if the attacks are purely malice, an opportunity for someone to cause unprovoked harm? Attacking an individual or individuals who have no media presence.
Unfortunately there are sociopaths in society that get their kicks by causing pain and suffering. If you are so attacked then see how you go getting something done about it. The current system favours the sociopaths and psychopaths.
In previous times the harm they could do was limited. Now they can broadcast to the world at large
27 Aug 2014 1:44:36pm
And? What are we supposed to do about it?
Yes, some people will take advantage of the large audience and relative anonymity that the Internet offers to indulge in their most abusive habits. Unfortunately there isn't much anybody can do - some hosts may (and often do) choose to ban the "trolls" and I doubt anybody would blame them, but that is usually reactive and takes place after the victim has already been hurt.
It is a sad fact of life that anybody who puts their opinion out into the public sphere has to anticipate getting some incredibly vicious and obnoxious responses. It isn't nice, it isn't fair and it isn't a sign of great maturity. But as the old saying goes; if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
27 Aug 2014 2:58:46pm
You missed my point. This is not about a person's opinion being attacked. In the example I am referring to the incidents did not involve twitter but another online media
Impersonations, plural, with photo and disgusting malicious obscene abuse. All by a person the individual had never met or spoken to.
I take the viewpoint that the individual must be protected. Are you prepared for the lives of individuals to be greatly harmed just so you can comment without restrictions?
What can be done? Not much by police action if anything. Civil action? Yes but that may be prolonged and unless you can handle the legals yourself, incredibly expensive
27 Aug 2014 3:32:15pm
And you missed my point. My point is that "trolls are going to troll" and there isn't much anybody can do about.
Whether that is a well-known public figure or some bullied school-kid, anybody who establishes a "presence" online is in the firing line.
Do I like it? Not really. I'd prefer that we all live in a courteous society. One in which the world of the internet is not a few clicks away from being a sewer of abusive trolls. Sadly I don't see any way of preventing the trolls from being abusive. If you have any ideas then please enlighten us, but I still think that the only way to avoid personal attacks online is to be invisible and never speak up.
27 Aug 2014 5:16:12pm
Once again you missed my point
The victim I am referring to had no online presence.
Attacked by impersonation
No attack on opinions held
Malicious obscene attacks causing great distress
The material was published for nearly 11 months despite complaints
And yes, the matter is being litigated, including against the media companies involved
So I have to ask, if one of your family members was viciously impersonated and attacked online by someone neither you nor the family member had ever met, would you continue to espouse nothing should be done so you could continue to state your opinions online?
struck dumb:
27 Aug 2014 6:07:04pm
Its very easy to impersonate someone online; there are some appalling loopholes that can be exploited by the trolls provided they pick their social media carefully, and there is almost no redress for the innocent victim unless they have a money tree. The police even have a tough time with this because social media sites rarely have a physical presence outside of the US, and the US media laws are a farce. Getting the large internet companies to take responsibility for their users is just about impossible because you have to take them to court in the US, thats assuming you can actually find a way to lodge a complaint that the company recognises as valid. Their responses are churned out by a computer; Google, in particular, doesn't even bother pretending to contact their lawyers to sort out impersonation problems.
Its a sociopaths and criminal's paradise and unless the large social media companies start policing themselves, International Law will start doing it, and we will have internet censorship imposed on us for better or for worse.
27 Aug 2014 6:57:15pm
You can take them to court in Australia, just a matter of not being bluffed. Potentially expensive though
Trkulja v Google was successful for the Plaintiff as was his action against Yahoo. Defamation actions both. From memory a total of $450 000 in defamation damages though I am unaware of the legal costs, which would be additional, imposed. In Dow Jones & Co. Inc. v Gutnick the High Court ruled that Gutnick had the right to sue because the material, while originating in the USA, had been published in Australia.
Food for thought.
28 Aug 2014 9:25:15am
Perhaps one can take some relief in the belief there is a higher court. Faith is a more effective catalyst in that regard, fake it till you make it.
I know it.
If someone has fallen in their own conceit and is pathologically possessed to do whatever they can to manifest the envy eating them up, which is what I take your reference to some unknown taunter is, what can you do?
One cannot cure others, but perhaps whatever situation avails, just take it as a life lesson, unpleasant but ultimately grist for the mill of understanding.
28 Aug 2014 10:37:45am
The taunter has been identified. NO one in the family has met him. His abuse by impersonation and obscenities is just part of the abuse. Emails, letters and phone calls.
Not just us. He is a serial offender. I sometimes wonder he gets the time. There have been complaints to the olice from others, but for some reason he slips under their radar.
Pert :
27 Aug 2014 9:23:06pm
You are protected. All of your IT devices have an on/off switch.
Why get bent out of shape over some nameless, faceless troll, who has no real bearing on your real life?
Pity their low intellect, then move on.
28 Aug 2014 10:41:37am
If only it was so easy. You cannot just switch off the internet. It is people throughout Australia this impersonator has communicated with
In a hard copy context, imagine your local paper featured your name, photo and locality, then attributed obscene comments to you. Then did it day after day, week after week.
Would you then suggest to just stop buying the newspaper?
27 Aug 2014 2:13:33pm
Not just sociopaths and psychopaths, Kerry but pathetic cowards who spread their vile musings under cover of anonymity. Freedom of speech is all very well but ...... !!
It seems to me that social media has lost its original purpose and providers need to take stock of how we move on from the present misuse.
27 Aug 2014 3:05:55pm
We actually do not have free speech
In earlier days I was an admirer of the First Amendment of the USA constitution. Not now
The first amendment belongs to the pre-internet era and is now an albatross hanging around the USA's neck
It is no accident that the media is dominated by USA companies - Yahoo, Google and Twitter. The USA constitution allows them to get away with much that would be subject to litigation in Australia. What these companies are doing are doing is trying to assert the American jurisdiction on us, to bluff away our legal rights
There really has to be accountability. I do believe any topic should be able to be discussed, but malicious anuse? No!
27 Aug 2014 4:37:25pm
What you say here is fair comment however the trolls seem to have all the freedom of speech in the world and the issue is, some people believe them and, unwittingly or otherwise, climb onto the bandwagon.
I think it was a spokesperson for Twitter who said a few days ago that monitoring and editing the vast volume of messages is nigh impossible. Then there is the risk of bias or subjective assessment on the part of the editor(s)
27 Aug 2014 5:26:12pm
To my knowledge that defence has not been tested in an Australian court. They may be relying on the Broadcasting Act para 91, but that is only a defence if the publisher has no knowledge of the offensive content or has no reason to know.
I maintain that once the company is notified of the abuse and if they do not take down in a timely manner then they are liable. Check Godfrey v Demon Internet in the UK, take down was set by the court at 6pm following day
I also am of the opinion that if the company gets a lot of complaints then they should have the knowledge of the extent of the abuse occurring
The defence you have mentioned is self satisfying. For example, this opinion piece is being human moderated. Offensive posts are not published.
Imagine if a company had no human moderation on a similar opinion article but no human moderation. They would be swamped with trolls. But then they would argue, as the company you referred to, that we are too busy to moderate.
Peter of Melbourne:
27 Aug 2014 5:56:18pm
What you say here is fair comment however the trolls seem to have all the freedom of speech in the world and the issue is, some people believe them and, unwittingly or otherwise, climb onto the bandwagon.
whats your point? religion has been sucking in the gullible for thousands upon thousands of years
as for this article, it is just another loony fringe ultra leftist rant demanding censorship. typical of the ultra left either agree with me or else we will censor you.
as much as i despise them, atleast the ultra right do not demand such rubbish from our politicians, leaving us with the conclusion, and rightly so, that i despise the ultra left in this nation one hell of a lot more.
27 Aug 2014 7:03:38pm
For a start I can hardly be called leftist
Secondly I think the ultra right and the ultra left would equally be interested in censorship
If the current government thought they could get away with it I suspect they certainly would.
Both major parties will do little or nothing to address the problem of malicious trolls. Trolls vote
27 Aug 2014 10:20:33pm
Maybe you should read the articles before commentating. There is no demand for censorship. If you can't manage the whole thing, just try the last two paras.
28 Aug 2014 12:46:01pm
Too true Kerry. But I would go further and say that social media is also bringing out the psychopathic that may have otherwise lay dormant (or only occasionally getting airtime), in other words it can breathe life into such individuals. Just as alcohol can, and often does, bring out violence, social media (which in my book includes dating sites) has the same effect for the psychopathic. Never have I encountered so many psychopathic individuals than in the past 10 years coinciding with the rise of social media. Oh, and by the way, I have studied workplace harassment and bullying and worked in the field for 3 years at a peak national body level (even putting in place national guidelines on harassment and bullying) so I do have some knowledge of abuse, bullying and psychopathic behaviour.
28 Aug 2014 1:36:27pm
I agree with your comment. It is not just a small minority.
I have been stunned to see the degree which some join in, unthinkingly, in the abuse.
I have doubts about their intelligence but am well aware of the willingness to be offensive when they can do it anonymously, and it may be anonymous
27 Aug 2014 1:35:27pm
The Drum has its own fair share of trolls, ranging from the provocative devil's advocates to those who resort to personal abuse of anyone who dares to express a view with which they disagree. They are dealt with simply by either not responding to their posts or presenting calm, logical, evidence-based argument in reply.
27 Aug 2014 2:09:31pm
Actually, I think ignoring the trolls and the misanthropes is the better solution. Calm, logical and evidence-based arguments don't work well, if at all.
27 Aug 2014 2:33:29pm
Good points, but one problem with the drum is the decisions to discriminate against a certain point of view or ideology is the invisible moderators have that absolute control.
The only people in here who believe that the moderators and more largely the ABC as a whole body is biased are center to center right leaning people. that alone is proof of the bias.
Unfair bias whether it is intentional or not is extremely aggravating to the people on the receiving end.
27 Aug 2014 3:25:40pm
There's some truth to that. I read the CBC website fairly regularly, and the CBC is lambasted on a very regular basis by people complaining it's a tool of the neocon government, and equally regularly by people complaining it's run by socialists or commies. To me, that means it's probably more or less in the middle, and annoying the heck of of anyone who is not.
Sea Monster:
27 Aug 2014 5:05:59pm
So I'll start on the attack on Zelda Williams. Totally inappropriate. Condemn it absolutely. Twitter should give users the ability to block trolls. But they don't cause they want to make money. I condemn twitter. I condemn facebook for the same reason.
I do offer the observation that activities I would describe as low-level sadism are common in non-pathological humans. It is quite common for people to take delight in the misfortune of rivals and enemies. Take Abbott's 'Suppository'. Was the guffufle about it reasoned concern about his mental abilities. Or we just jumping on cause it made him look silly. Did his enemies not take delight in it?
Slapstick humor? Sporting rivalry?
How about when you get the usual 'Labor/Liberal are idiots' barbs here? Is this pure reason? Is it a legitimate analysis of the mental faculties of our politicians? Or are the throwers trying to upset their rivals?
I think the 'troll' label is problematic here. I think its thrown around too much and used merely to slur someone one disagrees with. I also think its impossible to divorce human-feeling (including what I call non-pathological sadism) from a lively discussion. People feel passions. People like to best rivals. People feel personal insult when you criticize their tribe. Even if that tribe is called Labor/Liberal.
Another problem I have is it can be arbitrary. The mods are generally even handed, I find. Pop is wrong. Pop thinks he's being singled out but he's not. Everyone gets spiked. A broad spectrum of commentors complain about it. people want to use them a shields, where their rivals have none. But they still want to hang onto their spears. A liberal voter wants to call Labor voters nitwits, but its trolling if Labor returns serve.
Also if we make a discussion purely reasonable, it becomes purely boring. Cause again we're people and we have hormones and emotions.
27 Aug 2014 8:05:07pm
I'd have to agree that the "troll" label is thrown around to often, and incorrectly. Most of the examples in this article are not in fact trolling at all. Many of the people who objected to Carlton's article weren't trolls, they were simply people who disagreed with him, some in civil terms, others, not, but that doesn't make them trolls.
Trolls put in inflammatory comments to disrupt the whole thread. Sometimes, they can be wickedly funny, sometimes just madly irritating. But people who simply fling abuse are not necessarily trolls; mostly they're just people who need to get a life.
28 Aug 2014 9:11:21am
Come on fran, you know the rules. If you disagree with me, you are a troll. If you don't agree withe me, you are diametrically opposed to me on every possible issue. Anyone that disagrees with me is a leftist, luvvy, latte sipping, rusted on pinko who's a soft on drugs, soft on crime, soft on terror, soft in the head tree-huging, climate warmist engaging in class warfare, the politics of envy and has a sense of entitlement. Unless of course they are from the loony, greedy, aggressive, baby eating right.
James Murphy:
27 Aug 2014 3:13:50pm
Logical and evidence-based reasoning, along with objectivity and perspective are the very skills and traits which appear to be totally lacking amongst the people of whom you speak.
As the saying goes, it's better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt...
The noisy and inflexible ideologues on here manage to show their true colours, and no one forces them to...
a happy little debunker:
27 Aug 2014 4:10:33pm
As one of the noisy and inflexible Ideologue's on this Drum, I can confirm that many of those that I converse with are as inflexible and noisy as myself.
This forum almost always boils down to a shouty match between 2 disparate groupings.
Conservative voices (neo-cons is the current pejorative) & Progressive voices (or Luvvies).
In addition to these 2 groupings there is a 3rd & a 4th more powerful and over arching presences that must be acknowledged.
The choice of opinions and analysis's that are placed up for public perusal (as, I have found) are for the most part, distinctly critical of conservative views.
Finding a lack of critical opinion or analysis of the previous government vs the previous opposition, compelled me to take action ( on a personal level) to ensure a conservative voice may be heard. Since the election have found this to be completely reversed with much of the criticism levelled at the current government, with an almost free pass granted to the current opposition.
This, to me, would appear to be a selective bias.
Lastly, the Moderaters have a profound effect on the flow of conversation.
I am, at times, amazed at what they allow to be published vs what I know they don't publish.
27 Aug 2014 5:06:27pm
I often wonder why conservative posters continue to post here (and other left leaning sites). I think I would quickly grow weary of the predictable backlash to any reasoned arguments - yet like a car crash I can not look away. Keep fighting the good fight. Thanks, a lurker.
27 Aug 2014 5:43:38pm
There are very few reasoned arguments. As happy says most posters are welded on to one side of politics. When you believe your team is always right, and the other always wrong, 'reason' flies out the window.
For what it's worth I am economically conservative and socially progressive. There's no team left for me to barrack for !.
Sea Monster :
27 Aug 2014 6:15:07pm
Lucksmith, debunker has declared in his first sentence he's not providing reasoned arguments.
Which is a shame really. I like his old stuff better than his new stuff. He was actually quiet good at reasonable discussion (and whimsy ) before he turned.
a happy little debunker:
27 Aug 2014 7:31:00pm
Sea monster,
Please be reassured that outside of the political argy bargy, that dominates here, My whimsy is intact and although probably na?ve is hopefully entertaining!
Sea Monster :
27 Aug 2014 6:23:34pm
Oh and I would point out Debunker's bitterest rivals complain just as much that their comments are spiked. They even had a web site devoted to it.
And they express equivalent mystification as to the reasons. The problem I think they all have is an inability to criticize themselves. Although debunker reveals a certain self knowledge here. For mine they were getting spiked for abuse but they were all unable to see it in themselves.
Waterloo Sunset 2016:
27 Aug 2014 8:49:18pm
When one becomes conditioned to truncated threads and idiotic insults left up without the right of reply, one tends to make quick sorties.
This affects the whole substance.
I find jumping in, and being abstract, more fun, especially seeing the incomprehension.
27 Aug 2014 8:14:11pm
I have to say, one of the things I find irritating is the assumption that people fall into easy categories - left or right, and if you aren't one of us, you must be in the other camp. What about the people, and I'd count myself one of them, who can't be categorized by simple left/right tags? Who would be regarded as lefties on some subjects, righties on others, and off the wall on yet others? People who don't fit into neat little one-dimensional boxes (or squares)?
I got accused the other day of being extreme right wing, for no better reason than that I had a different point of view on one issue than my critic did. I found it very sad that anyone should have such a cookie cutter view of his fellow humans, that he thought we all fit into a simple pattern and can be so easily categorized. Humans are so much more complex than that. Debate should never boil down to shouty matches between two groups when there is really so much more diversity of thought than that. But, it does happen a lot here.
28 Aug 2014 6:50:26am
yes, I largely agree, there are people who are progressive, support gay marriage, tick many of the boxes, but would never vote Labor, and the reverse, however I was told once that if you know a persons view on, refugees, climate change, and the NBN, and if they are consistent on those seemingly disparate subject, you can slot them into left leaning, Green/Labor or right leaning politically conservative voting. We must remember of course that were all individuals, and we have different views on most things, but at the end of the day there are two parties that can rule, one left, one right, and no matter our first preference, eventually we vote for one of them.
Sea Monster :
28 Aug 2014 7:48:36am
I don't agree we have a left wing major party.
28 Aug 2014 9:42:20am
Agreed, Sea Monster: We have two centre/right parties: Liberal 1 (the LNP) and Liberal 2 (Labor). I sometimes find it hard to tell the difference between the two these days.
28 Aug 2014 8:50:14am
I totally agree, frangipani. Trying to reduce a discussion to bipolar opposites destroys the subtler aspects of it. The main problem is that, when people decide that you're in one extreme camp or the other, they either dismiss or blindly embrace what you have to say, depending on their own political bent.
28 Aug 2014 10:14:38am
hi frangi
how true,these people who scream down discussion and blindly follow 1 party or idea no matter what are the true enemies of our lovely country,I have my own ideas but i always read differing thoughts because sometimes they inform me of aspects that i have not considered.being wrong is not a crime but refusing to test your ideas and admit it is
27 Aug 2014 1:37:35pm
"Disturbingly women seem to be the most common target of these attacks."
Why is this more disturbing than if it were the opposite?
Lord Erebus:
27 Aug 2014 1:58:26pm
Because some people still see women as less able to deal with any form of abuse than men. No idea why, everyone handles things differently. It's the old chauvinistic view of men being heartless and strong, and women being emotional and weak. And it's wrong.
27 Aug 2014 2:09:53pm
I noticed that to. I'm a feminist, I hate this type of thing. It seems to imply that women are weaker than men and less able to look after themselves and/or men being attacked on-line doesn't matter so much.
Really stupid thing to say sister !.
27 Aug 2014 2:11:57pm
I think it is disturbing but I am not entirely surprised.
It accords with my observations of bullying in the school yard. Girls were always more effective at verbal and note passing bullying than the boys who in turn were more likely to be prone to physical bullying.
Unfortunately Twitter can be a vehicle for written bullying
27 Aug 2014 6:42:23pm
It takes me back, but verbal bullying was pretty widespread between boys as well.
Once the growth spurts hit, bullies had to worry about physical retaliation from their victims. Verbal bullying was a safer option and provided less risk.
Sea Monster:
27 Aug 2014 2:32:16pm
It's not. Its more disturbing than if the abuse was evenly distributed.
27 Aug 2014 4:03:09pm
it is disturbing that women attract more abuse because this implies that simply being female will attract online abusers to a greater extent than if you were male. that is, the abusers view women as less than equal to themselves and therefore target them (us) for abuse. same as in real life.
27 Aug 2014 5:29:06pm
It's only disturbing if you believe the feminist propaganda. In reality, men are just as often abused online as women are.
Sea Monster:
27 Aug 2014 5:45:25pm
I beseech our esteemed moderators to intervene here. What do they find? How does the volume and quality of abuse directed at female contributors compare?
I feel your opinion would be very illuminating here.
27 Aug 2014 10:24:45pm
How do they even determine who is male and female on the internet?
For all you know I could be a grandmother in my 80's.
Unlikely, yes. Impossible, no.
27 Aug 2014 10:44:36pm
How could the moderators of the Drum know the gender of the contributors? Even amongst those that have said their gender publicly, well, they could be lying.
And I do believe that women are being targeted more than men; this seems to be a fact brought out by a view of all the platforms, such as twitter, facebook and just using mobile phones, etc.
Obviously it would also be disturbing if men were being targeted more than women. But they're not. So right now, there IS a gender swing towards being bullied, and it swings towards women.
Sea Monster :
28 Aug 2014 7:21:46am
They know the gender of the published author. Some commenters have female names. Some commenters identify themselves as mothers and wives.
28 Aug 2014 7:27:04am
Ann, the fact that you believe it doesn't make it true.
Everyone gets abused on the Internet. But feminist journalists and commentators have portrayed it as an issue of female victimhood, which it is not.
27 Aug 2014 4:42:24pm
"Disturbingly women seem to be the most target of these attacks "!
And even more disturbing is that much of the attacks are perpetrated by other women !
Seems to me that social media offers very little of value to anyone apart from clearing the congestion around the water cooler and providing a political marketing medium for apparatchiks to hatch strategies to reach the ignorant and naive for vote trawling !
28 Aug 2014 12:49:17pm
Totally agree, ladies bitch upon fellow ladies.
I went to an all girls school, so I have many years of experience of bitching. Plus from just everyday observation, with one example being, I had a workmate, suggest a female only gym. I was a little apprehensive from my school experience, but thought I'd give it a go, cause how bad could Adult females be is what I thought beforehand. Afterwards NEVER AGAIN, I could just feel the bitch rising.
So I can se how the same would happen on twitter or any other online forum, even here.
27 Aug 2014 5:43:19pm
Maybe women are most common target, because women are the most common users of social media. Every day I see young girls with their faces stuck in smart phones, they would outnumber similar age boys using smart phones 10:1
27 Aug 2014 7:36:06pm
Not only does such a comment imply women being the victim of Twitter harassment is worse than a man being a victim, but it is also incorrect.
While the following information applies directly to celebrities, it does seem to question the common conception that women experience more abuse than men online. A recent study found that 5.19% of tweets directed at men were abusive, but only 1.37% of tweets directed at women were abusive. The same study found that women were more likely to abuse other women and men abuse other men.
It would have been nice if the author had done a little more research and then we wouldn't have ended up with a very dubious statement that infantises women and devalues the experiences of men.
28 Aug 2014 3:09:03pm
It's quite simple, women are gossip mongers, they love a good scandal and cannot wait to hear the latest sister get her comeuppance. A woman's greatest enemy is not a man it is another woman and plenty of women will tell you that.
Case in point. The other day some female celebrity got a mention in news.com.au and her story was " I am sick of dating dickh**ds", who cares you might say! I say other women care that's who, they love it and I imagine plenty of them would have told her so if given the opportunity.
Imagine a man hitting the news with "I am sick of dating whining bitc**s", not only would he be a laughing stock among men, he would be attacked and torn to shreds by the femmos screaming foul and throwing the usual arsenal of male abuse at him.
Lord Erebus:
27 Aug 2014 2:06:05pm
There's the old saying "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". I'd apply that here. I don't use twitter, at all, and my Facebook is only able to be found by Friends, so I have to add people, as I can't be found in a public search (keeps me safe from my patients). But it also means that if I'm being trolled, it's by someone I know, and I can just block them myself. It's not hard.
And whilst I'm fully aware there are times when it's not so simplistic a view, a dose of responsibility and ownership of one's self and online accounts can be taken here. If it's not to your liking, and you can't stop it, cancel your online accounts, and create new ones with slightly altered details. Or don't use Social media.
27 Aug 2014 9:16:43pm
I have little sympathy for those trolled, and whose lives are supposedly 'ruined' by bullying on social media. The solution is straightforward: get off these mawkish ('David' vs. 'Richard' Attenborough), grief-porn driven (Robin Williams), sex-crazed (Miley Cyrus) social media vehicles and cancel your accounts. You know the deal when you sign up: be prepared for the risk of abuse. Don't sign up if you can't understand that fact. That you would left Twitter abuse affect you says more about your own insecurities and inane dependence on these sites than it does about some mythical social problem. 99.9% of Twitter users are uninteresting people suddenly given a vehicle to communicate without any obligation to think before they speak - how else could it be? That XYZ and their 40 followers would think that anyone could care less about how he/she reacted to some celebrity they didn't know, nor never met's death is hilarious. That a mummy blogger would think her views on doulas and placentphagy are important is also ridiculous. A side whinge I have too is that the media think Twitter and Facebook provide a legitimate source of stories. While I understand they allow lazy journalists to create news out of nothing, merely by using the word 'viral', these stories add nothing to the world, and usually aren't that interesting either. Now we even get social media stories about social media - an even more bizarre concept! The world turned before Twitter and Facebook, and it will turn if you completely ignore them too.
27 Aug 2014 2:13:40pm
Any stats on how many women are the perpetrators of these attacks?
Herr Kaleun:
27 Aug 2014 4:01:16pm
Seriously, any Social Justice Warrior would meet the criteria for being an online troll.
27 Aug 2014 10:27:36pm
It would be a useful link for such a statement.
Questions of how women are defined when profiles could lack gender
How it compares to users use (eg if males are 30% of posts and getting 40% of abuse is the abuse female targeted)
How abuse was defined (search for certain words or human evaluation of context or both)?
All would impact the result.
The problem should not be that a gender receives more abuse. It should be that there is abuse.
27 Aug 2014 10:45:27pm
By definition, the anonymity of the internet trolls means that they're, well, anonymous.
27 Aug 2014 2:22:02pm
I guess it's that immediacy and covert undercurrents of wild animal we are not that far removed from, that draws out the animosity of the wild hyena. Whether seeking revenge, blood sport or schadenfreuden, it is the beast inside Twitter is the wild west of the Serengeti - frolicking herds should be wary.
WA Ideas:
27 Aug 2014 2:56:52pm
Simple solution, just don't use social media for every facet of your life.
Try sending your friends a text message or even call them to arrange to meet somewhere, instead of posting something on facebook for the world to see and then complain if people you didn't intend to be there turn up...
Instead of posting a selfie on the internet to try to get some attention from people you've never met before, just go out with your friends and see them in person. At least your friends are not likely to say mean things about your appearance (to your face), but there's plenty of people on the internet that will readily pick on your appearance.
Try thinking about what the things you post on facebook and twitter would sound like, and how stupid you would look saying it, if you said the same thing in a public space to actual people. Then decide if you still want to tell the world you just made tacos or had a shower...
27 Aug 2014 10:46:17pm
Congratulations on missing a lot of the point.
Much online bullying takes place against people who have no or little social media presence.
In fact, the less social media presence you have, the EASIER it is for someone to impersonate you and thus smear your reputation by pretending to be you!
28 Aug 2014 1:44:00pm
I agree. This is our situation as I have explained in earlier posts.
Because of not having an online presence I was fortunate to pick up on the impersonations just a few days after they started.
As it was it all went on for at least 11 months despite complaints
27 Aug 2014 3:06:16pm
As always the user has absolute and unmitigated control over their exposure to social media. Don't log on.
27 Aug 2014 10:47:16pm
And so when someone else creates an account in your name and starts posting horrible rubbish about you?
Do you just "not log on" even after many of your real-life friends have expressed concern about all the horrid things "you" are saying on facebook? When you try to get a job and your employer finds "your" profile?
28 Aug 2014 8:55:10am
True. And I suppose if you are getting obscene phone calls you could just not answer the phone or if you are getting threatening messages in the post you could not open your letters. I think in this case the medium is not really the issue as much as content is
28 Aug 2014 1:48:29pm
Suggestions made to me by our local police include changing my phone number and my address
Can't do either, I write and publish and both contact details are in my books and necessary for future orders
Our problem is that the impersonator/abuser is out of state (NSW) and while the local police can act (my understanding is that he would be held if he turns up in Qld) it is u to NSW police to act against him
27 Aug 2014 3:12:49pm
Twitter. Just say no...
27 Aug 2014 3:18:07pm
I notice a few comments about the 'disturbingly' line. I do agree that there should be no qualitative difference in gender considerations of 'offence'. Nor should there be an age difference, I am still horrified that men being killed in the ME is considered by all and sundry quite OK, not so if women or children are killed!?!?! My question here is, where are the stats to back up the op's statement? My personal observation is that men and women are equally guilty of trolling/attacking with men carrying the greatest preponderance of 'victim-hood'. This of course is personal observation and therefore requires no statistics, however it does leave me surprised at a global assertion that completely contradicts my observations.
Herr Kaleun:
27 Aug 2014 4:03:52pm
I don't have the data with me, although I would hope someone here might be able to verify, but I recently read that a study (or studies) have shown that men are twice as likely to have been the victim of online harassment than women. It's just that, as many people seem to think, any harassment is worse against a female because they believe women are somehow 'fragile'.
27 Aug 2014 7:40:27pm
Google "demos twitter celebrities" and there ye shall find the information thy seek.
28 Aug 2014 8:53:42am
Maybe because it's when a man threatens to rape and murder a woman it carries more of threat then if a women threatens the man. This is the depth of online vulgarity and it goes on. I have had people threaten to behead and dismember my children and pets, use them as sexual objects on each other and just about every concept that you'd find in De Sade's works. Women are not more fragile but the threats carry a weight, generally speaking. Maybe that's why? Just musin'
28 Aug 2014 9:52:16am
Women are more likely to troll women, whereas men generally don't discriminate in who they troll.
While I am against any kind of harassment, the internet being the anonymous beast it is does require a certain attitude when using social media.
If we are going to look at the weight threats carry, how about we look at reality and not perception. Men are more likely to be threatened and for those threats to be carried out against them in the real world. It seems to me women have the perception they are more at risk of attacks, when in reality men are.
28 Aug 2014 2:43:16pm
"The vast majority of dangerous, abusive and violent behavior that occurs in the privacy of people's homes is committed by men against women." (ABS, 2005 cited in Domestic Violence Prevention Centre)
28 Aug 2014 3:04:33pm
1 in 3 of all DV victims are men. 1 in 3 campaign.
Anyway, that is beside the point. If you look at all violence, not domestic violence. Men are the vast majority of victims.
28 Aug 2014 4:17:38pm
In all reports I read when I was working in a national peak body for workplace health and safety men were overwhelmingly the greatest perpetrators of bullying, abuse and harassment. So not just in the home but at work as well. That covers 99% of all situations.
27 Aug 2014 3:34:27pm
Easy fix: Stop using Twitter.
27 Aug 2014 10:49:17pm
But for a lot of people, if you have any sort of public presence whatsoever, people can exploit you online without you even having an account.
Say you're a Family Court Judge. Say you make a ruling someone hates.
Now say they create a twitter account in your name, make it look "official" (as much as twitter can) and start posting racist rubbish?
You don't think that's a problem?
28 Aug 2014 10:45:12am
Yes, but if everyone stopped using Twitter et al, this would have no credible effect.
28 Aug 2014 11:28:18am
no its not a problemcourts look at the IP address and if you dont own it case closed,you seem to worry too much anne.harsh words mean nothing,unless someone is a weak precious little thing,feminists keep on about women being strong etc so why worry?
28 Aug 2014 3:15:00pm
Firstly the court may ascertain the, as in this example, the Family Court Judge does not own the I address but does the public that read the impersonators malicious comments know? That is how reputations are destroyed
Additionally, you cannot say with certainty that not being the owner of the IP address means no responsibility. This sort of abuse can be done anonymously from internet cafes, educational institutions, large companies and so on
27 Aug 2014 3:47:53pm
Social Media brings out the worst. My husband had an affair and left me for the other woman. I was so hurt and angry and behaved in a way I never thought I would. I downloaded her photo from FB, added a nasty meme to it and than reposted on my own FB profile. The other woman did not deserve this and it is something I will regret forever and has certainly made me think before using social media since. I am an educated, grown woman and I can now see how easily it is for people to lose their common sense when posting on social media sites; no excuse at all though. Never again for me. Repent, repent... very sorry
28 Aug 2014 8:37:22am
In cyber space, no one gets physically hurt. Like the computer games that I like, it is learning how easily things can screw up without the cost of real bloodshed.
28 Aug 2014 2:46:07pm
Psychological hurt can be just as savage...many have suicided over it. Read up on bullying and abuse to find out how damaging it can be.
28 Aug 2014 3:17:53pm
Agree. From the Courts point of view psychological damage is a cause of action. Its results (Clinical depression, PTSD) may be as damaging as a physical assault.
28 Aug 2014 4:18:40pm
Agree totally Kerry.
27 Aug 2014 4:07:02pm
i dont get the point of twitter. or facebook. they're just not very interesting.
is anonymity the key? are tolls always anonymous? should more sites insist on all users identifying themselves?
28 Aug 2014 8:34:30am
The security agencies just love facebook and twitter.
Identification will lead to retribution and not all will be trolls.
27 Aug 2014 4:35:12pm
"#firstworldproblem, right?"
Sarah, that's spot on. We often overlook the fact that when we engage in social media to discuss our somewhat trivial first-world problems we are not in our usual social milieu ... we are interacting with people from all corners of the world whose problems are far from trivial and as a result we get attacked. Proceed with caution!
27 Aug 2014 5:15:56pm
People can have their real names on line and have what some call "freedom of speech".
When real names are attributed to comments on Twitter etc there will be a reduction of the pure nasty attackers. It is a matter of common decency for people to own their behaviour and be held accountable when it over steps the line which doesn't have to be laws but just the general tone of social interaction.
Afterall we don't allow people to wander the streets yelling, attacking other people they don't like - it is not only frowned upon but Police can and often are called. Why should we continue to allow the digital world a free pass?
As for Taylor Swift about haters - yeah - no - haters don't get a free pass to say what they want and we turn a blind eye.
28 Aug 2014 8:32:18am
With forced identity, there will also be a reduction of real issues by those who genuinely fear persecution.
28 Aug 2014 3:20:32pm
I agree. But that would interfere with the profits of the giant media multinationals, so no chance any pollie legislating. I suspect the only way of forcing change will be through the courts
27 Aug 2014 6:29:19pm
Very interesting discourse. Is it possible to have a discussion on a topic which has strong pro and anti thinkers without being flippant on the one side and provocative (a troll?) on the other?
I am interested in all answers in most discussions because it educates me and makes me think. I like that.
Some of the flippant replies, and cutting or not, amuse me very much.
I'm not sure what exactly a troll is because I think I haven't met one, and is it for others to decide, or the writer?
Finally, how does one decide who is a boy and who is a girl?
27 Aug 2014 7:55:30pm
"Finally, how does one decide who is a boy and who is a girl?"
Very true. One of the oldest jokes on the net is a cartoon of a dog typing away on a keyboard, the caption being 'On the internet, nobody has to know you're a dog'.
So gender is irrelevant really.
As for abuse, I've been around since the days of Usenet and unmoderated discussions. You people think moderated forums or twits are bad? Hah. You really have no idea.
There's no technical reason why software like Twitter et al can't have kill files. They don't because there isn't enough pressure (demand) to get them to do it. On Usenet, we used to use kill files to basically ignore threads (topics), posters, posters on certain topics - depends on how arcane you wanted to make the rules. All under end user control.
So I'm afraid I can't buy into the poor little victim campaign regardless of supposed gender. It's always been a rough playground. The trick is to simply ignore the trolls. Frankly, I regard Twitter as the resort of vacuous minds anyway, so I frankly don't care. That goes double for Facebook, whose users are typified by needing the affirmation of strangers for their lives.
27 Aug 2014 10:19:04pm
So only 69% of social media users have witnessed digital cruelty.
What percentage of road users have witnessed dangerous road behavior?
What percentage of people that leave their house have witnessed physical cruelty?
How many verbal cruelty?
What does that 69% figure mean?
Waterloo Sunset 2016:
28 Aug 2014 7:26:37am
One of the ways to foment vacuous Twitter style headlines is to display examples in our national organ: the taxpayer's ABC.
This morning when I switch on my phablet, I saw that the headlines were a comment by an obscure WA senator : Sue Lines. Her claim to fame being a member of the United Voice trade union.
How an earth can an editor condone a silly air-headed comment as a national headline?
Instead of focusing on 'important' matters of the moment - and there are myriad - especially International, we get a comment up as being of national importance.
No wonder people feel that their own silly "Twitter Trumpeting", is interesting!
28 Aug 2014 8:02:28am
On line bullying only affects weaklings who, in my opinion, should toughen up.
Moderating fora only distorts the perception of public opinion and produces social weakness. Profane words like <insert profanity here> can easily be replaced.
28 Aug 2014 2:50:21pm
That's not a fair comment Harquebus...there are people who have suicided over bullying and they weren't weak ppl. It's that kind of attitude that make many in workplace health and safety sector cringe. Bullying has lead directly to serious injury and death. It also costs the economy a serious amount of money. It also affects families.
28 Aug 2014 3:27:58pm
An utterly absurd post. I put this in a hard copy context in an earlier comment " imagine your local paper featured your name, photo and locality, then attributed obscene comments to you. Then did it day after day, week after week.
Would you then suggest to just stop buying the newspaper?"
I'll go further. What if it was your child or grandchild that was featured. Gross sexual invitations ridicule and harassment. And psychological damage caused. No doubt you would just tell your family member to toughen up
Jack Jeckyl:
28 Aug 2014 8:25:54am
Well... if you don't like it... I guess you can always use the other internet :/
28 Aug 2014 8:35:34am
In school long before the Internet we used to simply bypass the bullies and where they hung out. If you get bullied online simply close your account and start another one and just tell your friends.
Fredrick Toben:
28 Aug 2014 8:50:04am
An excellent piece about a world without manners.
As a former teacher I managed well the trolls that insulted me on my YouTube account because such individuals are really undisciplined and who need to be imbued with basic moral values. But then the heavies for whom these trolls worked got into the act and complained that my work was that of a "hater", "Holocaust denier", "Antisemite", "Racist", Nazi", "Xenophobe", "Nationalist", etc. - and my YouTube account was terminated. The reason offered was that my work offended against community standards.
Interestingly, I have a copy of the vile comments and recently I glanced through them again and am now wondering why such comments didn't offend against community standards.
This episode caused me to develop the following thought: If you take away my freedom to think and to speak, you are denying me my humanity and you commit a crime against humanity. Truth is my defence. Unfortunately YouTube didn't want to know about such matters, and it appears its management loves individuals to self-destruct but not to be critical of fundamental matters that concern our humanity.
28 Aug 2014 9:13:59am
Toughen up. There is speech that breaks the law in terms of harrassment,libel, etc., and then there is speech that gets your blood pressure up. If it's the latter, too bad. Offended? Really? I"m offended fifty times a day on my commute to work. Deal with it. Or deactivate Twitter. Don't post on comment boards. Stay off of Facebook if that's a problem, too. We had a perfectly functional world without those things, with free elections (in democracies with free speech, that is!) and everything. The electronic universe will survice without you.
As George Orwell said, " 'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
28 Aug 2014 3:21:00pm
I can't understand what the problem is as I have never been attacked on social media at all. The fact I do not have any accounts might have something to do with it. Do yourself a favour and stop telling all and sundry every little detail of your boring little lives on social media and there is a better than even chance you will be left alone.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The following companies are among those whose shares made significant price moves in Thursday's session.
Apogee Enterprises Inc. APOG jumped 9.9%. Late Wednesday, the company reported a 56% jump in second-quarter net earnings to $11.5 million, or 39 cents a share. Sales generated by the glass-products maker rose 20% to $217.7 million. The company raised its forecast for 2008 earnings from continuing operations to $1.43 to $1.53 a share, citing stronger year-to-date performance of its architectural and picture-framing businesses.
Monolithic Power Systems Inc. MPWR saw its shares jump 15.1% to reach an all-time high after analysts lifted stock-price targets for the chipmaker, which boosted its third-quarter revenue forecast late Wednesday. See full story.
Alaska Air Group ALK dropped 5.1% after Goldman Sachs cut its rating on the carrier.
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. BCRX plummeted 32.1%. The company said preliminary findings from a Phase II study with intramuscular injection of peramivir, a drug candidate to treat seasonal and life-threatening influenza, show that while a single dose demonstrated a statistically insignificant improvement over a placebo. The company also said that due to the introduction of a shorter injection needle in the Phase II trial, only one-third of subjects received an adequate injection. BioCryst said it plans "to correct the issues identified" in the study and "continue our preparations to initiate our Phase III program by year end."
Bombay Co. BBAO skidded 61.1% after the home-furnishings retailer filed for Chapter 11 status in a U.S. bankruptcy court in Texas. Seeking bankruptcy protection will enable management "to address financial challenges and identify a strategic or financial investor," Bombay Co. said. Its Canadian unit is seeking similar protection.
Circuit City Stores Inc. CC shed 18.0%. The No. 2 U.S. consumer-electronics retailer reported a second-quarter loss of $62.8 million, or 38 cents a share, compared with a profit of $10 million, or 6 cents, generated a year earlier. Sales dropped to $2.64 billion from $2.82 billion, the Richmond, Va.-based company said, adding it sees "continued weakness" affecting its third-quarter results. Analysts, on average, had forecast a second-quarter loss of 12 cents a share with sales of $2.78 billion, according to Thomson Financial.
CKE Restaurants Inc. CKR fell 6.0%. The restaurant-chain operator said second-quarter net income fell to $9.4 million, or 15 cents a share, from $14.2 million, or 20 cents, earned a year earlier. The number of average outstanding shares decreased to 65.3 million from 72.8 million. Pro-forma earnings were 18 cents a share. Sales dipped to $363.1 million from $364.4 million. Wall Street had been looking for earnings of 20 cents a share on revenue of $364 million, on average. Combined same-store sales rose 2.3% in August.
Shares of Clarcor Inc. CLC dropped 12.3%. The company reported third-quarter net earnings that rose 16% to $26.6 million, or 53 cents a share. The results included an after-tax gain of 8 cents a share from the completion of its tax audits. Revenue generated by the maker of filtration and industrial-packaging products rose 2.9% to $238.3 million. Analysts had expected earnings of 49 cents a share on revenue of $248.7 million. Clarcor also narrowed its 2007 per-share earnings forecast to a range of $1.74 to $1.78; it previously forecast $1.72 to $1.80 a share. Analysts' average projection stands at earnings of $1.77 a share.
U.S.-listed shares of Cott Corp. COT (BCB) plunged 19.2% after the company cut its 2007 earnings estimate due to higher-than-expected declines in industry volume in key markets, increased promotional activity by national brands, and higher commodity costs. The Toronto beverage company now expects flat year-over-year revenue growth and operating income substantially lower than a year earlier. Cott had been calling for operating profit growth in the 12% to 15% range.
Herman Miller Inc. MLHR lost 5.1%. Late Wednesday, the company reported first-quarter net earnings of $33.5 million, or 54 cents a share, up from the prior year's 28.5 million, or 43 cents a share. The office-furniture manufacturer's revenue rose to $491.7 million from $449.7 million. Analysts expected earnings of 50 cents a share on revenue of $490 million, but investors responded to a lackluster forecast.


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It would be pointless for me or anyone else to declare Blake Griffin's rookie season a rousing success thus far. Ridiculous statistical lines and metric tons of highlight reel footage tend to speak for themselves. Griffin has dunked and rebounded his way to mainstream appeal, a testament to his impressive abilities as a stat stuffer and the innate, almighty power of a rim-rocking slam.
Although his statistical contributions are splendid, Griffin isn't out to "get his." In fact, it's quite the contrary; though the N.B.A.'s new favorite son is a strong scorer and rebounder, Griffin has also impressed fans with his knack for piling up the game's most altruistic statistic. He may not function as the Clippers' primary ball handler, but Griffin is no stranger to setting up his teammates.
In fact, Griffin has registered seven or more assists on five occasions this season, a mark surpassed by only one forward or center (LeBron James) in the league. He has reached that mark more often than the starting point guards Aaron Brooks and Darren Collison, and is just one seven-assist game short of matching Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade and Manu Ginobili's totals for the year. The same court awareness that guides Griffin to the hoop for a put-back dunk apparently informs his sense of space on the pass, leading to an impressive overall floor game that doesn't quite get the credit it deserves. Most big men don't move or dunk the way Griffin does, and most don't pass the way he does, either.
Griffin is adept at executing simple kick-outs from the post, but his patience down low is particularly impressive. Rarely does he seem rushed. He moves quickly, but only because doing so often coincides with his own sense of pace. Yet when his options are limited, he isn't reluctant at all to reset the ball up top, or wait for defenders to swarm him before finding a wide-open teammate:
He is similarly impressive in dealing with double teams all over the floor. Blue chip prospects like Griffin have seen heavy defensive pressure their entire lives, but not all of them display the same savvy and persistence in making the right play. Griffin's height often allows him to see over his defenders, and he evaluates his options carefully until a great opportunity — rather than merely a good one — presents itself:
Beyond that ability to execute the routine pass to perfection is an uncanny sense of his teammates' positioning. Griffin can make a great pass from almost anywhere on the court, and in doing so he hardly looks like a forward facilitating the offense. Griffin's passes have more of an impact than that; he is a legitimate playmaker for Los Angeles:
Nothing about Griffin – from his insane athleticism to his unique rebounding style – is typical, which makes it fitting that he has stepped into a unique class of passing big men. The overtly dominant aspects of Griffin's play have made him one of the season's greatest delights, but his game clearly stretches beyond the scoring and rebounding columns. His effectiveness transcends "SportsCenter."
Griffin is the reigning king of N.B.A. spectacle, but his passing aptitude should serve as a reminder of the substance in his game. The dunks are great, but it's his multiple-layered impact that has paved his early road to stardom.
Rob Mahoney is an obsessive student of professional basketball, dedicated to the minutiae, the overarching themes and everything in between. You can read more of his work at TheTwoManGame.com, HardwoodParoxysm.com and ProBasketballTalk.com.


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If a white piece of paper blinds you with too many possibilities, starting with another piece of art and editing that can get you straight into the art-making process. Creating instant restrictions creates less resistance to getting started because there's less choice on offer. Austin Kleon in The Steal Like An Artist Journal encourages us "If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running away from it." By mixing up existing art into something new, you're creating your own art and experimenting with what you like visually.
You will need: Text (or images) to cut up. Pencil and ruler if you want to be really accurate. Scissors or scalpel to cut. Glue if you want to fix permanently in place.
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- Rearrange the squares into a new arrangement
- Optional: fix in place with glue
Why not try cutting different size shapes and then fit things together like an abstract jigsaw puzzle. Play around creating more irregular shapes and arrangements that aren't so neat and square. Cecil Touchon uses a similar process to create his Typography Abstraction art and so 'frees the letters from their burden of being bearers of meaning.'
Seeing something arranged differently and changing your perspective will feed back into other areas of your life in a positive way. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Creativity says "Good scientists, like good artists, must let their minds roam playfully or they will not discover new facts, new patterns, new relationships." By allowing yourself to playfully create new patterns using what exists around, you opens yourself up to other unknown possibilities.
Look what's already laying around your home that you can cut up and rearrange and go have a play.
"…nothing is completely original. All creative work builds on what came before. Every new idea is just a remix or a mashup of one or two previous ideas."– Austin Kleon, Steal Like An Artist


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Arcana Queen Crossbones
Creamy Egyptian musk, wild honey, sweet coconut and exotic resins
I'm back! Today I have a review for the recently resurrected Arcana scent Queen Crossbones. While this didn't initially catch my eye, the rave reviews convinced me to find a decant of it. I love a good honey scent, and musk, resins, and coconut are all notes I enjoy as well. When Arcana re-opens, this scent will be available for $19 US for a 5mL bottle.
In the bottle: Not the Bees, is that you? This smells super similar! I'm hoping it's different on the skin though.
On the skin: Okay, now we're talking! The honey is still the most prominent note by far, but its less sweet than the honey in Not the Bees. I think that's due to the musk and resins; they're definitely making it darker, richer, and sexier. The resins also add a subtle smoky quality to it that i'm really digging. This is very much Not the Bees' older, more mature sister who wears lots of leather and lace to the grocery store. It's really stunning.
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Google wasn't the first to impose a cryptocurrency ad ban, and they won't be the last to start rolling it back either. Google stopped running cryptocurrency ads due to mistrust surrounding ICOs and general lack of industry regulation. Social media giants Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat had all banned cryptocurrency advertising earlier this year.
Back in June Facebook was one of the first to reverse their crypto ban, still saying no to things like ICOs or binary options, but opening up the playing field a bit for lower risk ads from cryptocurrency companies. Pre-approved advertisers have since been able to work with Facebook.
Now Google in a similar move is modifying their ad policies. Like Facebook, they are still imposing the ban on ICOs, wallets and trading advice. Google plans to permit regulated crypto exchanges to buy ads in both the United States and Japan. To become a bonafide regulated exchange, advertisers will need to get certified by Google for the country they plan to advertise to. This policy will extend to all financial service ads according to Google. Their new policies will be officially in effect at the start of October.
It is pretty obvious why Facebook and Google are starting to lift the blanket crypto ban slowly. There are millions if not billions to be made as an ad platform for the cryptocurrency industry.
Google has yet to comment on their decision as many ask "Why now?" especially as cryptocurrency prices continue to plummet week after week.
At the time of the initial crypto ad ban, Google Director of Sustainable Ads was quoted saying:
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Google is not throwing caution to the wind necessarily with this lift; they are starting to regulate the industry themselves, only allowing those who are Google certified financial services to advertise.


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23 Mar 2019
Take a rug or pull up a hay bale and groove to the beat at the Toodyay Music Fest.
Enjoy a day and night with a variety of musical entertainment. Various venues throughout the Toodyay townsite will keep you entertained with classical, jazz, rock, blues and more.
The streets of Toodyay will be alive with buskers' music entertaining diners in the cafes and shoppers alike. There will be music of all genres and styles to suit everyone's taste.
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23 Mar 2019
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