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Do NOT Feed The Trolls. Just Don't
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Australian TV star Charlotte Dawson is dead at 47, an apparent suicide, and it was widely known that she'd battled severe depression and tried to commit suicide before. And it was also known that her Sydney home was about to be auctioned off. But mental health advocates are upset... at Twitter. Seems that Dawson was the target of a lot of abuse on Twitter, and Twitter has not, as have Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, signed on to an Australian government complaint-investigating plan to combat cyberbullying. But is it Twitter's job to do that? Maybe so, but should we consider them just a passive carrier, like a telephone, not responsible for what people say on it, or is it incumbent upon them to stop the trolls? And for the trolls: Proud of yourselves? (Sydney Morning Herald)
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