http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31749753
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The internet acts like a kind of digital-fuelled alcohol, freeing us to say things to strangers that we would never dare to say if we met them.
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Trolling has become an established term for people who sow discord on the internet by starting arguments - and there are a lot of them around.
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It's something we see regularly on Cable Forum. Users expect that it is their right to expound their point of view, increasingly loudly and bluntly, when others show dissent. Civility goes out of the window and frequently matters degenerate towards a textual slanging match with the opponents feeling safe from the physical abuse as they hide behind their keyboard.
Somehow they keyboard insulates people from reality, and words are typed that we would never dare to say face to face even in a private room, let alone shouted out across the high street for all present to witness.
But is there any way back to a point where users of the internet can have a dialogue, express alternative viewpoints, but do so in a friendly debate?