Gwyneth Paltrow would like anonymous commenters with an ax to grind—a.k.a. trolls—to consciously uncouple from the Internet for the sake of civilization.
Paltrow made her case for a more enlightened Internet culture on Tuesday at the Code Conference, a high-profile tech gathering that was held in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
It’s a measure of the Goop founder’s status as a tech entrepreneur that she appeared alongside such attendees as Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. (Though Forbes may not agree with that statement. The actress didn’t make the magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women List this year.)
The Oscar winner and lifestyle guru was ostensibly at the conference to talk about Goop, but for much of her 15-minute session she chose to ponder the meaning of online sniping from the point of view of “a person in the culture that people want to harm”—and the resulting material has been referred to by Lainey Gossip as “required reading for your
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