A culture of cowards
Female business blogger gets death threats for negative comments about batman movie.
An entrepreneur and business blogger for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of Seattle’s daily newspapers, recently wrote an admittedly frivolous post comparing the movie Batman the Dark Knight to risks in a business venture. In mere hours, fans of the movie cyber-attacked her for the “negative review”, one with such aggressive hate as to wish her gang-raped and shot. We have created a culture of cowards, those who hide behind the anonymous comment. The media used to castigate such cyber-bullying behavior - until its publishers also got seduced by the web traffic such comments help generate. Here are some tips to protect yourself from cyber-bullies if you're not 100% sure they'll kee their presence limited to cyberspace.
