So what if they are being trolled? If they are, then the trolls want to fix the problem too. Say what you will about internet trolls, but the good ones can often achieve some real progress.
Works like this: Troll sees something that isn't quite right, like Amazon's "Adult" content. Troll thinks "This will be lots of lulz to mess with this." Media complains that Amazon is banning gay content. Amazon comes back next week and says "Now the button will just flag it for us to look at and see if it's Adult Content." Trolls laugh. ??? Profit.
Skip step 3, and Amazon has no reason to change anything. Sure, it keeps the trolls away from the lulz, and that make keep them from breeding. Maybe they eat lulz, I don't know.
What is also amusing, and something that should be considered by anyone upset that Amazon might possibly be censoring anything, is the thought that the queer trolls might be able to take this further than Amazon. Imagine a trolling group countering every move by the real anti-gay trolls; the ones that send letters to restaurants or commercials who happen to have a known gay actor walking in the background or, heaven forbid, using the product being sold. Picture those corporations being flooded with letters every time they dare to use a straight actor, how dare they insult the queer community like that.
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ninetydegrees
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on 2009-04-13 09:20 am (UTC)Works like this:
Troll sees something that isn't quite right, like Amazon's "Adult" content.
Troll thinks "This will be lots of lulz to mess with this."
Media complains that Amazon is banning gay content.
Amazon comes back next week and says "Now the button will just flag it for us to look at and see if it's Adult Content."
Trolls laugh.
???
Profit.
Skip step 3, and Amazon has no reason to change anything. Sure, it keeps the trolls away from the lulz, and that make keep them from breeding. Maybe they eat lulz, I don't know.
What is also amusing, and something that should be considered by anyone upset that Amazon might possibly be censoring anything, is the thought that the queer trolls might be able to take this further than Amazon. Imagine a trolling group countering every move by the real anti-gay trolls; the ones that send letters to restaurants or commercials who happen to have a known gay actor walking in the background or, heaven forbid, using the product being sold. Picture those corporations being flooded with letters every time they dare to use a straight actor, how dare they insult the queer community like that.
It's a lovely picture.