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A must-read for any parent of a child that has Facebook!
The Internet is the great equaliser, and we now live in an age when that nerdy-looking young man cowering in the corner at social gatherings can go home and become, in the endlessness of cyberspace, an evil monster preying on and terrorising the vulnerable; his revenge, as he sees it, on a society that has kicked him in the face once too often.
Welcome to the world of 4Chan-inspired ‘RIP trolling,’ a subculture that has been much discussed in recent years in news and television media across the English-speaking world, but one which has not truly been explained. This book would like to remedy that, charting as it does a vigilante journey through the cyber abyss that also takes in the horrific paedophilia problem on Facebook, damning the social network for its failure to put an end to it and to the stalking and tormenting of bereaved people on its network.
As well as taking an unforgiving and sometimes very humorous gaze at just what kinds of morons, psychos, and clowns go online to try and transform themselves into dark lords of the Internet, the book also takes a look at how the grotesque subculture of mass, organised RIP trolling began, what life is like in the little online mental wards created by its practitioners, and how all of it - along with the rampant child pornography swapping and grooming of children which takes place on Facebook and other similar sites - could very easily be brought to an end through the cooperation of the social networks.
There are many trolls to be found in this book, but this is not a fairy story.
- The author cooperated extensively with BBC program makers in the making of two television documentaries on the problem of RIP trolling and cyberbullying on the web. The Panorama episode 'Hunting the Internet Bullies,' and the special one-off documentary 'The Anti-Social Network' were both shown in 2012.
REVIEW:
Hackers on Steroids will change your entire view of Facebook. Well written and presented, this book will have you chuckling along one minute at the stupidity and warped moral view on life of the RIP Trolls, then you will be shocked into utter disbelieving at the chapters on how predators use Facebook for their own sick child pornography rings. It's all there in plain sight, and Facebook does nothing about it. If you have kids who have Facebook, YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK!!
Unless I'm sorely out of the loop, what on Earth is that referring to?
The rest of the E-Book can be summarised thusly: Mrs Lovejoy's timeless plea
If your kids are having problems on the Internet; he's a revolutionary amendment to child-rearing strategy: take their mother-effin' internet away.
I've always held that the three excuses that will be used to completely and totally eviscerate and censor the Internet are: Child Safety, Terrorism and Copyright Infringement.
Frankly, the elevation of child rights to the point of overriding common sense in Australia and much of the Western World is reaching apocalyptically stupendous levels and somebody you might have heard of once spoke of the dangers of such an oblivious hive-mind mentality:
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." - Mein Kampf, p.403
The end does not justify the means.