Anonymous Behavior Quotes

When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

My name is Brian and I am a troll. An internet troll.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

The Internet is a seemingly unreal environment where we think we are anonymous. It's a potentially provocative place. As a result, we may not behave the way we would in the real world. Some of us are drawn into what could become a dangerous situation.

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

The internet's weird. It's kind of harvesting the negativity. I think negativity has always been out there, but because people are hiding behind the screen, they feel able to express these hateful feelings they've maybe been keeping inside.

Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.