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The poison of anonymity

2024-04-04T18:07:04.265Z

Highlights: The attack on Samara, 14, at the end of college in Montpellier is coming back to the forefront. The investigation will determine the role and involvement of each of these bullies who left a 14-year-old girl for dead on a sidewalk. It has already been proven that social networks have once again played a terrifying role. And then there are these ephemeral messages on Snapchat, very practical for terrifying prey and pouring out a flood of threats, vulgarity and hatred before immediately disappearing.


After the attack on Samara, 14, at the end of college in Montpellier this Tuesday, online harassment is coming back to the forefront.


What do we really know about the attack on Samara? Ultimately, regardless of the pitiful explanations of the teenagers who attacked her, the investigation will determine the role and involvement of each of these bullies who left a 14-year-old girl for dead on a sidewalk. On the other hand, it has already been proven that social networks have once again played a terrifying role. Thus, instant messaging services are sinister sounding boards for little tormentors who hide behind anonymity, harassers who camouflage themselves under pseudonyms, morons who film and post videos of unbearable violence.

As if it all resembled a game, a “parallel life”. As if all this didn’t exist “in real life”. And then, there are these ephemeral messages on Snapchat, very practical for terrifying prey and pouring out a flood of threats, vulgarity and hatred before immediately disappearing.

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Source: leparis

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