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That's super neat! It's really unfortunate people are being so negative. Sometimes the anonymous aspect of the internet, while overall a good thing, can lead to people being critical of others for no reason at all.


They were being mean on Facebook, which means they were being mean under their real names and photographs to a nine year old child.


Interesting. I saw her video and they didn't list any names so I assumed they were anonymous comments.


Ah, the Facebook link is buried in the article.

> But her reporting did not impress some of the good people of Selinsgrove, and they let Hilde have it on Facebook Saturday night. “I think this is appalling that u would do a story like this when all the facts are not in yet,” wrote one commenter. Her parents were attacked too: “does no one realize that this is a 9 year old reporting this type of graphic information!” wrote a Facebook poster. “I mean, what parents are encouraging this type of behavior!”


I'm not sure which video you watched, but the first video on the page lists the names of each of the comment authors.




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