[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Toy Santa

It's not "trolling" that's the problem, "trolling" originally was basically people taking the piss in a way that was annoying / irritating but not exactly harmful. What's happening these days is that incidents of outright harassment and abuse are being minimised as "trolling" when they're actually something far more serious... and should be treated as a criminal matter like any other form of harassment.

Well I was watching a YouTube video yesterday about how this Youtuber guy who'd been accused of being a Paedophile (I don't know if he is innocent or not) was trying to get a job (because YouTube had banned him) and every time that he'd try these people on the Internet would keep harassing the businesses that hired him to fire him because of the crime that they thought he'd committed. So basically he couldn't find work because of these people believing him to be a Paedophile and was getting harassed out of jobs which imo is wrong regardless of if his guilty or not.

Don't get me wrong if he is a Pedo and he is trying to become a Teacher or something else involving a strong interaction with kids then fair enough, but these people were out to ruin his life regardless of if he might be innocent, which to me is disgusting.

Basically I'm with you that internet harassment needs to be tackled.