...al and Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola—have raised the banner of nationalism in their fight against foreign-origin rivals, urging the government to design policies which will favour homegrown companies. "What we need to do is what China did (15 years ago) and tell the world we need your capital, but we don't need your companies,” said Bansal, executive chairman and cofounder of Flipkart, while speaking at the Carnegie India Global Technology Summit here. The coordinated push amounts to ...
Flipkart's Sachin Bansal, Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal seek government's help in battle against Amazon & Uber - The Economic Times
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...t white nationalism, one that will victimise the exploitable – anyone who is not a conservative, white, affluent male – with detached delight. They are preparing for power, but their expression says: ‘Why so serious?’
Richard Seymour reviews ‘This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ by Whitney Phillips, ‘Gendertrolling’ by Karla Mantilla, ‘Bad Clowns’ by Benjamin Radford and ‘Trolls’ by John Lindow · LRB 15 December 2016
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...ve been a first step, symbolically significant if ineffectual, in stemming the tide. The user was the young alt-right columnist Milo Yiannopoulos, a regular guest on news programmes on account of his carefully marketed controversialising. He was banned for spearheading a campaign of racist abuse aimed at the actor Leslie Jones, who starred as the only black member of the all-woman team in the remake of Ghostbusters
Richard Seymour reviews ‘This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ by Whitney Phillips, ‘Gendertrolling’ by Karla Mantilla, ‘Bad Clowns’ by Benjamin Radford and ‘Trolls’ by John Lindow · LRB 15 December 2016
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... it was claiming that tax avoidance just made him smart, or stating that his plan to profit from foreclosures was ‘the kind of thinking our country needs’, or denouncing the mothers of dead soldiers. As one of his high-profile alt-right supporters told the Guardian, ‘We’re the troll army! We’re here to win! We’re savage!’
Richard Seymour reviews ‘This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ by Whitney Phillips, ‘Gendertrolling’ by Karla Mantilla, ‘Bad Clowns’ by Benjamin Radford and ‘Trolls’ by John Lindow · LRB 15 December 2016
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Despite innumerable cases of devastating harassment of individuals by newspapers over the years, the internet is now commonly blamed for liberating previously repressed aggression. ‘Below-the-line’ comment has become a by-word for viciousness, seen not as a by-product of the media content on which it feeds, but as the dark side of online democratisation. New media are also take...
Richard Seymour reviews ‘This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ by Whitney Phillips, ‘Gendertrolling’ by Karla Mantilla, ‘Bad Clowns’ by Benjamin Radford and ‘Trolls’ by John Lindow · LRB 15 December 2016
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... has now greatly expanded the potential for this kind of predation. The monstering of Justine Sacco is one of Ronson’s most telling case studies. Ahead of a flight to South Africa, Sacco had tweeted: ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids. Just kidding. I’m white!’ With only 170 followers, she had no reason to expect much attention. But during the time it took her to fly there, Twitter exploded over what was taken literally as a racist provocation, rather than ...
Richard Seymour reviews ‘This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ by Whitney Phillips, ‘Gendertrolling’ by Karla Mantilla, ‘Bad Clowns’ by Benjamin Radford and ‘Trolls’ by John Lindow · LRB 15 December 2016
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