Free speech online can be revolutionary. But it can also poison the very bloodstream of democracyIt was a pretty standard far-fair account: anonymous (check); misappropriating St George (check); dripping with venom towards “Muslim-loving” lefties (check). But this one had a twist. They had found my address and had taken screen shots of where I lived from Google’s Street View function. “Here’s his bedroom,” they wrote, with an arrow pointing at the window; “here’s the door he comes out at the morning”, and with an arrow pointing at the entrance to my block of flats. In the time it took Twitter to shut down the account,they had already tweeted many other far-fair accounts with the details. Related: The dim side of Guardian comments Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com