It's the journalistic equivalent of having a live report from a port a potty to see if shit stinks.

OMG this. When did Twitter become a news source? I thought we had effectively got the word out to High School kids that Wikipedia can't be trusted for facts, why can't the grown ass adults of the MSM do the same for Twitter?

I believe you mean 8chan. The newest Galapagos for obnoxious Troll evolution.

"Is hating women a profitable schtick ala Ann Coulter or a sincerely held personal belief for him?"

Because lucky for us, the hateful are almost always stupid as well. Setting up a private encryption is hard and using and maintaining it is hard. If an easy, public option is available they will always choose that.

If not Twitter, than they'd be using many of the available private encryption services. I'd rather have them communicating out in the open where they can be more easily monitored.

Or treated online death threats against civilians the same as they treat them against the President. That'd be nice.

I agree in sentiment, but in this case "don't wrestle with a pig, you just get covered in mud and the pig enjoys it" applies more.

Agreed, if we're talking about death/rape threats, then yes, that's an actual crime that needs to be taken much more seriously by law enforcement (or at least treated with the same threat level as death threats to the President are). But 1000 people saying "you suck" followed by whatever racial/gender/sexual…

Agreed, if unchallenged, Trolls seem to have an attention span of about a week before they move on to other stupidity.

Diana Moon-Glampers agrees.

Could I see your evidence? Not trying to start an argument, but I've read studies that actually do point to "Don't feed the Trolls" as a successful tactic. I think Nate Silver ran a piece on it a while back (not sure) , I'm looking for it now.

"no one is forcing you to read anything on this site."

This, I avoid it like the plague and any time a MSM channel starts its story with "The twiiterverse exploded this morning when…" I immediately turn it off.

And those god damn millennials need to actually start voting instead of just turning up at Bernie rallies.

Punish. Your. Toilet!

Yes, and the 50 million angry racists that voted for him are not going to magically disappear after he loses.

This, I didn't see how anybody but CCH Pounder could play her but I'm starting to come around on that.

I wouldn't say mostly-imaginary, maybe completely over-reported?

Liked it, I will proceed with the next 3 eps. *gavel*