The personal harassment that affects those, like the writer and Heritage Action, that attempt to debate heritage issues is not unique to metal detecting. It affects others too, like the threats against those campaigning for a new banknote design in the UK (seriously), and now classicist Mary Beard has received a bomb threat - which she reported (BBC, Bomb threat tweet sent to classicist Mary Beard. 4th August 2013). This is apparently part of a growing trend in the Anglophone world, where the boundary between legitimate debate and sheer hooliganism has become so blurred, fostered by the ease with which on the Internet anonymous and false identities can give the attacker some sort of cover which leads to impunity. The perpetrators do not always go unpunished (BBC, 'Thousands of abusive electronic message cases reach court', 30 July 2013). Today 4th August 2013 on Twitter is the Trolliday boycottto draw attention to this issue.
Sunday 4 August 2013
Even Classicists Having Repeated Hassles with Internet Trolls
The personal harassment that affects those, like the writer and Heritage Action, that attempt to debate heritage issues is not unique to metal detecting. It affects others too, like the threats against those campaigning for a new banknote design in the UK (seriously), and now classicist Mary Beard has received a bomb threat - which she reported (BBC, Bomb threat tweet sent to classicist Mary Beard. 4th August 2013). This is apparently part of a growing trend in the Anglophone world, where the boundary between legitimate debate and sheer hooliganism has become so blurred, fostered by the ease with which on the Internet anonymous and false identities can give the attacker some sort of cover which leads to impunity. The perpetrators do not always go unpunished (BBC, 'Thousands of abusive electronic message cases reach court', 30 July 2013). Today 4th August 2013 on Twitter is the Trolliday boycottto draw attention to this issue.
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