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Troll Trolled

· Friday, March 26, 2004 · 7 comments

Michael J. Totten reports an amusing event in the blogosphere: Noam Chomsky starts a blog, including a comment section. He’s so overwhelmed by trolls his first day, he shuts down the comments section. Heh.

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Comments

  1. Kevin says:
    Friday, March 26, 2004 at 08:20

    That was the only part worth reading. Pity.

  2. akim says:
    Friday, March 26, 2004 at 15:58

    Aw. I think Chomsky can’t type – maybe he should use audio-blog software or something 🙂 It’s been pretty lame so far.

  3. Dodd says:
    Friday, March 26, 2004 at 17:21

    Dissent is patriotic!

  4. Bithead says:
    Friday, March 26, 2004 at 18:57

    Tood bad; Chomsky could have actually LEARNED something.

  5. DANEgerus says:
    Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:22

    Comedy… but not really a surprise… the same reason there is not Leftwing talk radio… because there is no reasoning with opinions formulated out of myopic emotionalized elitism.

  6. Little Miss Attila says:
    Saturday, March 27, 2004 at 05:05

    I guess you’re trying to say he’s not sticking to linguistics? Very unfortunate.

  7. Arguing with signposts... says:
    Monday, March 29, 2004 at 08:42

    Signs of the apocalypse no. 13451235
    Noam Chomsky has a blog. Okay, so it’s not *really* Noam Chomsky *on the blog,* but he’s doing the thinking: This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the…

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