The Problem of Trolling in Medium

It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it can be very damaging to the platform.

This evening I had the very unpleasant experience of coming under an attack in Medium, from what I can only conclude must have been a troll.

I had chosen to respond to a comment on a slightly sticky subject, porn.

Don’t ask me why, I have no idea. It is way off my usual subject I choose to write about in Medium, and seems relatively trivial. But it is something we all have some exposure to, therefore all points of view are valid, no?

I personally think it has its place, and judging from what I know of other folks thoughts on it, I am not unusual.

The poster was publicising a claimed petition which had half a million signatures on it, advocating the shutdown of Pornhub, claiming that the site is instrumental in exploitation of kids.

I responded with all the usual arguments, that law enforcement agencies probably use it all the time, to catch the monsters, one of whom had so been caught, that she mentioned in her argument, and how the perpetrators of such crimes always existed, and would probably just go underground if that media platform was removed.

She responded almost instantly, claiming that I had “outed myself”, as a child molester, as I was trying to defend the platform.

WTF?!?