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- When considering hacking and art, information and telecommunications and art, we can’t neglect trolling, which is perhaps the practice that has most successfully been adapted and transmogrified into the mainstream. It’s buzzy.
In its inception, trolling was a way to humble outsiders, a carryover from the pre–Web 2.0 era when there was a set of uncommon skills one had to possess to participate in the world wide web, lest they were on AOL and subject to ridicule and hacker scams, some of which I perpetuated as a tween. But as the gate to entry became lower and lower, more and more people participated on both sides of the game, both as trolls and as people/sheeple.
We must be careful when we have platforms.