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Web users turn on trolls in what may be a new Internet age

By Rosie Swash, The Guardian Two recent online ‘outings’ suggest that attitudes towards online anonymity may have shifted When mourners arrived at Maple Ridge’s Peace Park in Vancouver to pay tribute to Amanda Todd earlier this week, few of those gathered in the 15-year-old’s memory could have realised quite how widely the effects…

Reddit troll ‘Violentacrez’ apologizes for treating Internet ‘like a game’

Michael Brutsch, known by his online pseudonym Violentacrez, on Thursday said he regretted his controversial online behavior. Considered the top “troll” of the social networking site Reddit, 49-year-old Brutsch had set up hundreds of sub-forums on the site, dedicated to topics like bestiality, provocative pictures of minors, rape jokes, images…