Cbdt Reveal: What Inspired Me To Write This Story?
I know, we're still a month away from my official launch date, but I wanted to talk about why I wrote this story and some things that I just fel strongly about.
In 2012, I had this idea to create a story involving teams of hackers competing against each other in a secret war of information. I didn't think I was computer savvy enough to write it, so I left it off on my shelf for 3 years.
I recently read an article about Cyber bullying and its affect on Gay teens, which got me into plotting again and revising my original idea. Cyber-bullying is a horrible issue that society is just learning about, but the way we're dealing with it is basically like a traditional bully/victim relationship.
However, there's a critical flaw in this assumption; everyone assumes only kids are bullying other kids and there are no directed attacks. Anyone who has been online at least for a few years knows that this is false; adults have reasons to attack people online in merciless cyber assaults and kids are easy targets of opportunity or potential gain, if let's say you want to make sure the future of LGBT causes have weaker presences.
In addition, we have a culture of people who attack with ugly reasoning without conscience or ethics. Some do it out of profit, others misguided faith.
Combine all of that and you have a story that extends from the world of classrooms to boardrooms to megachurches to terrorist camps in Syria and beyond. When borders of physical limits collapse, how far will human beings go to act upon their darkest impulses and ugliest desires? How far will the virtuous among us keep fighting such an enemy, who will never rest and never needs to?
That's the world that I envision in Cyber-Bullying Defense Team (CBDT)
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