Urgh. Those disgusting creeps deserve all the wrath the Internet can muster. This is sick.
My condolences and best wishes to Zelda.
My condolences and best wishes to Zelda.
Robin Williams' Daughter Leaves Twitter Following Online Abuse
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I have no doubt that there were far more people giving their best wishes and prayers to her than people being pieces of shit. Sadly its always the horrible psychotic minority that draw the attention. I for one think twitter is the worst possible and most bizarre way the internet is used to communicate. It reduces complex ideas to 140 characters as well as giving the people that have the least meaningful things to say as much screen realestate as everyone else. I hope Zelda and her family can forget about those terrible people and remember only the well wishers.Mcoffey said:
Suspend their Twitter accounts, that'll teach 'em.
Why would anyone even do this? What the actual fuck did Zelda Williams ever do to those cunts?
I hope she and the rest of her family can find some god damn peace.
And in light of the recent statement from Robin's wife this just makes it even sadder.
Why would anyone even do this? What the actual fuck did Zelda Williams ever do to those cunts?
I hope she and the rest of her family can find some god damn peace.
And in light of the recent statement from Robin's wife this just makes it even sadder.
Consider me disgusted but not surprised. I'm certainly not about to say this type of behavior is acceptable but I think we all knew someone out there who was deprived of their childhood would consider kicking this girl when she was down to be the height of entertainment.
How long until one of the Chans band together and discover the identities of these people? When they band together, they can get quite a bit done that's for sure.MrMan999 said:
OT: Absolutely despicable. The internet is full of assholes, that's a given, but this isn't just being an asshole. This is being downright evil. They'll have quite the bit of bad karma coming to them, that's for sure.
Are you fucking serious? What kind of person does this? What does it take to compel someone to tell a mourning daughter "Hey, his death is YOUR fault!" There has to be more than just a weak ass suspension involved here. Twitter, rise up and do something epic. What these people did is just putrid
Anonymous has destroyed lives for less than this, we just have to wait and see if this is a cause that 4chan latches on to. I'm not gonna say I hope for it, or that those people deserve anything quite that severe, but anything's possible, and you'd think that people would consider that when deciding to be a huge douche to a beloved high profile individual in a public forum.
Ditto.lacktheknack said:
"But guys - seriously! Guys! I was just *trolling*!" *insert whinging sounds and the juvenile stomping of feet in a corner*
Sadly, no fairy-tale code of conduct would solve this problem. The only way to solve the issue of harassment on social media is to more or less take away the Internet's most powerful tool, which happens to be anonymity. I don't want that. Nobody wants that. Most of us use that anonymity to skip the initial awkwardness of addressing new people or near-strangers, but too many people will pretty much openly state that they think getting a rise out of people is freaking hilarious.
If we were forced to log in as ourselves or to take to it all in the same creepy vein as Russia and start providing personal info before each connection to a Wi-Fi hot spot, we'd see a lot of that abuse fade away. I don't want that, but after seeing this, I'm starting to think that letting go of certain freedoms afforded by the Internet would be a good thing.
I have no problems sticking to the straight-and-narrow. Most people would complain, but they'd keep their protests to manageable levels. I'm pretty sure the louder types who'd be up there screeching about freedom of speech more than the norm would be those who have troll-worthy actions to keep on the down-low.
And mind you, I'm talking about the sort of trolling that should really end up with a trip to a counselor or a sensitivity training expert. Not, you know, the kind of potshots that we each have a variable ability to take from friends and family alike.
I'd just like to state for the record that the first amendment has exceptions specifically for cases like death threats, so I got no defenses. Get the cops, get some guys in white coats, get a mental health doctor, and drag these guys from their homes by force.
Throw them in a mental health institute for this. Seriously, they need to be studied.
Throw them in a mental health institute for this. Seriously, they need to be studied.
