Tim Wu Quotes
Trolling is an ancient problem. It's been around as long as there has been media.
Wu, Tim. Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, 18 Oct. 2016.
She was commenting on the many people on the Internet who will attack people on the Internet but who would not do it in public to the person's face. These people are often referred to on the Internet as "Trolls". They are very brave and often outrageous on line, but would rarely be so in person of public. Psychologists call this the "Online Disinhibition Effect."
Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu (born 1971/1972) is an American attorney, legal scholar, political figure, and government official who served as a professor of law at Columbia University and was a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is known legally and academically for his enacted "Carterfone" proposal and other significant contributions to antitrust and wireless communications policy, and popularly, for coining the phrase network neutrality in his 2003 law journal article, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In the late 2010s, Wu was a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook.