Internet Warriors

[Swift]

A Norwegian filmmaker spent the last three years tracking down some anonymous internet commenters - the vile, angry ones and made a short 20 min documentary about it.

Article - https://www.theguardian.com/global/2...lls-kyrre-lien

Video - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng...wn-homes-video

I'm always kind of hesitantly curious about some of the people you see constantly spewing hate online. Turns out that most of them, as you might have guessed, are pretty pathetic creatures.

[Hessen]

[Coys1882]

Well.... at least one of them came to their senses.

[REDVAN]

These are just your "average" person.

[undercoverbrother]

nm

[ASP#26525]

I'm only part way through, but I have to agree that these seem like regular people that use Facebook a lot. I am not seeing the "hate" for the most part, just your run-of-the-mill Facebook posts. I was really curious about the subject of the video, but I don't feel like the filmmaker has hit the mark here. I'd personally be more interested in those people REALLY filled with hate--the kinds of people on comment sites like Disqus or Fark that stalk random strangers online whilst cloaked in anonymity... but I guess those people are harder to track down because they don't use their real name like on Facebook.

Basically, I'd consider this "Facebook warriors" but definitely not "Internet warriors". The vast majority of people DO censor themselves when they use their real names.

[Locke]

Obligatory. Yes....language.

NSFW!