In 2006, Jason Fortuny — one of the so-called "Internet trolls" featured recently in the New York Times Magazine — placed an ad on Craigslist in which he pretended to be a woman seeking sex. Later, he posted photos and emails sent to him by the ad's respondents. Now, one of them — image and response pictured above —…
The trolls will always be with us, because the Internet is full of insane sociopaths. Charming sociopaths, clever sociopaths, perhaps even magazine-profile-worthy sociopaths — but sociopaths all the same. Wired profiled a videogame-heavy set of Internet trolls in January. The New York Times Magazine hunted and…
The man who posed as a woman on Craigslist and last week published the 178 replies (including photos and personal info of the respondents) was sexually molested as a child, broke up with his fiancee eight weeks ago, and wrote that he told a woman that he "posted pictures of her fugly kids on a child rape community."
