Go, Read: Reuters Report On Greek Cartoonist’s On-Line Harassment

Dina Kyriakidou at Reuters has a report up here about the cartoonist Arkas receiving hostile message for cartoons made that touch on Greece's intense economic crisis right at the moment. This may seem like just another Tuesday to some American cartoonists, political or not, but the author uses it to explain how these kind of hostile reactions seem to be part of the political process now, to the point that a party official had to issue a denial that they were involved in an organized way.

One big issue to track for 2016, and not just in cartooning, will be how political parties and individual agents try to control on-line reaction, reinforcement and revenge as a political tool. There's very much a "fuck that guy" ethos in political discussion and the culture generally right now from both sides that leads me to think that just about anything short of physical reprisal will be on the table in terms of reaction to opinion.
 
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