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Shakespeare loved to hurl a good insult. Was he literature's first troll?
By Anastasia Safioleas

Many of us have tussled online with internet trolls but did you know that trolling has its roots in Ancient Greece?

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/tro

ABC News · Trolling feels like a modern phenomenon, but its roots go back to William Shakespeare and beyondBy Anastasia Safioleas

Peter doesn't know how he got on a Liberal email list. He can't opt out
By Jonathan Hair

When voter Peter Magor received an unsolicited campaign email from the Liberal Party, he assumed he could unsubscribe. But the link to do so directed him to a Liberal Party website with no option to do so.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/lib

ABC News · Unsolicited email from Liberal Party directed voter to data harvesting operation when they clicked unsubscribeBy Jonathan Hair
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@homlett We've been working enthusiastically on the basis of a sharing culture since the 2000s, when #blogs and #wikis became a thing. Then #socialnetworks emerged.

That basic assumption doesn't work anymore. The social aspect of the #internet is being exploited for various purposes.

What was once a grassroots initiative is now being used against us. It is our own content that is being sold back to us in the form of #ai services.

But if we stop sharing, it'll just cause more problems.