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Here, here: the Swedish online love army who take on the trolls
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 798" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/the-swedish-online-love-army-who-battle-below-the-line-comments" target="_blank"><strong>Here, here: the Swedish online love army who take on the trolls - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p>#Jagärhär (#Iamhere) aims to battle abuse in online threads and jumps to defend those on receiving end </p><p></p><p>When a young woman with rainbow hair and a reputation for hostility towards sexual predators won a Swedish lawyer of the year award late last year, the online reaction came in two waves.</p><p></p><p>The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/aftonbladet/posts/2356172621059593" target="_blank">first was unpleasant</a>, a torrent of bile from people who objected to Linnéa Claeson’s looks, her feminist politics, her gender, her youth and her instagram account <a href="https://www.instagram.com/assholesonline/" target="_blank">@assholesonline</a>.</p><p></p><p>The second was less familiar: a blizzard of positive messages – congratulations, praise for her bravery and for acting as a role model despite the abusive comments.</p><p></p><p>The surge of support was orchestrated by an organisation called <a href="https://www.jagarhar.se/" target="_blank">#jagärhär </a>(#Iamhere), a Facebook group of about 75,000 people, most of them in Sweden. Fed up with the rude, confrontational nature of online conversation and the way that a few bad mouths can ruin a discussion, they have made it their business to turn bad threads good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 798, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/the-swedish-online-love-army-who-battle-below-the-line-comments'][B]Here, here: the Swedish online love army who take on the trolls - The Guardian[/B][/URL] #Jagärhär (#Iamhere) aims to battle abuse in online threads and jumps to defend those on receiving end When a young woman with rainbow hair and a reputation for hostility towards sexual predators won a Swedish lawyer of the year award late last year, the online reaction came in two waves. The [URL='https://www.facebook.com/aftonbladet/posts/2356172621059593']first was unpleasant[/URL], a torrent of bile from people who objected to Linnéa Claeson’s looks, her feminist politics, her gender, her youth and her instagram account [URL='https://www.instagram.com/assholesonline/']@assholesonline[/URL]. The second was less familiar: a blizzard of positive messages – congratulations, praise for her bravery and for acting as a role model despite the abusive comments. The surge of support was orchestrated by an organisation called [URL='https://www.jagarhar.se/']#jagärhär [/URL](#Iamhere), a Facebook group of about 75,000 people, most of them in Sweden. Fed up with the rude, confrontational nature of online conversation and the way that a few bad mouths can ruin a discussion, they have made it their business to turn bad threads good. [/QUOTE]
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