Twitter and other easily accessible means of online communication have encouraged the public to believe that Their Voice Will Be Heard. When it isn’t, they express their frustration throughabuse and threats or by blocking roads. In this way, the mentality of the ancient curse-tablet lives on.
In the ancient world, the purpose of the curse was to ‘bind’ the person you disliked — i.e.
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