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Kristina Svartholm is the mother of Gottfrid Svartholm-Warg, also known as Anakata and one of the founders of The Pirate Bay. This is a guest post by her about the reactions to the documentary TPB - AFK.
Kristina writes:
Internet Hate - or just ordinary hate?
The morning of the same day the documentary TPB - AFK was to premiere, there was a long article about Peter Sunde in the culture segment of Svenska Dagbladet [tl note: SvD, a newspaper], written by Adam Svanell. Besides the front page photo of Peter in a nonchalant, resting, pose, the article was given 4 whole pages. It contained a number of claims and thoughts on Peter and his life, many of them, to put it mildly, insulting and hurtful. It was claimed that the article was an edited version of one that will be published later, in what I interpret as a kind of kichensink [tl note: derogatory “light reading”] press, but it was given space in SvD just this day. I know few persons that could stand upright after such public hits.
In the same segment was an article by the same author, currently substituting the chief editor for the culture segment. There he attacks the other two persons as depicted in the film, Gottfrid as a drug addict, Fredrik as an alcoholic and xenophobe. He also allows himself to make fun of Gottfrids name. He writes that the film maker Klose has succeeded in depicting the real lives of the three founders, and make them true (believable) persons. Therefore, when Svanell mocks them in his article, he is not mocking their depiction by Klose, but the three founders, the three persons of flesh and blood.
Two days after the premiere there was another review-article in the culture segment, this time authored by Jan Lumholt. Here they are described as “the bizare trio” and “the separated filesharings-thieves” [tl: ?] are presented as “veritable UFO’s”. Klose may take his part of the responsibility for spreading this kind of image of them, but the words, at least, aren’t his.
I recongnise this aggressive, intentionally hurtful language from earlier comments in the press, namely in connection to the court case in 2009. It appeared, not unexpectedly, in the evening newspapers but also in morning newspapers [tl note: evening papers are considered “yellow press”, while morning ones are considered “serious”], for example DN [tl note: Dagens Nyheter, leading “serious” daily newspaper]
http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2009/04/ ... vara-javigIt appears to be allowed to freely hurt and derogate, as long as the victim is legally considered such by the society. “They should be able to cope” was the answer I got, spring 2009, when i contacted DN and several other local newspapers who had joined the hunt.
Today, we see an eager discussion about internet hate and how it is expressed. Among others, SvD had a long article about this today.
I wonder now: what’s the difference between internet hate and ordinary newspaper hate?
Kristina Svartholm