Trolling, for those who don't know internetspeak, is the art of saying something really heinous/shocking/over-the-top in an internet forum or comments in order to gain a response. Very often, trolls aren't espousing what they believe, they're just looking for outrage.
So when Councilperson Reginald Brown opened the meeting by saying he wasn't against food trucks after proposing an ordinance that seems to legislate food trucks out of Jacksonville, it was all I could think. Reginald Brown trolled us with a food truck ordinance.
I appreciate that he is willing to receive feedback from the community at this juncture. Sincerely and totally. If it were going to stay the same, I was ready to mobilize. The question is: did he just put a pretty anti-food truck ordinance out there to simply to form a committee? To gain a response?
If he was serious when he put it together, then, it's a worse problem as it was a woefully misinformed piece of legislation. I have to say: I hope Jacksonville just got trolled.
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You and me both. Though, if so, it seems an even more cruel trolling than the online form. Most people just ignore online trolls or spend 15 seconds dashing off an outraged reply. People actually put a lot of time, thought and effort into responding to Brown: petitions, public speaking, social media campaigns, etc. If he wanted to start a dialogue, he could have just reached out to the food truck community and...whoever's on the other side of this ordinance. Hmm...maybe he was just a troll mouthpiece?
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