I Find This Disturbing

[emmie]

no graphic pictures, i was listening to this on the news and couldn't believe what i was hearing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23479813

[Old_Geezer]

It's a strange world. But is there no contact link on twitter already (never use it myself). I'd have thought a tweet was hardly something that has to be highlighted in seconds.

[emmie]

this is what i am referring to. Why do people behave like this.

It follows a deluge of abuse and rape threats received by Caroline Criado-Perez, who successfully campaigned for women to be included on UK banknotes.

Ms Criado-Perez, who had appeared in the media to campaign for women to feature on banknotes, said the abusive tweets began the day it was announced that author Jane Austen would appear on the newly designed £10 note.

[boxtops]

It's horrible, em, it's perverted people hiding behind the anonymity of modern social networking.

[marval]

Yes it is disturbing. Why would any sane person do things like that?

[jno]

creepy, isn't it.

"The comedian Dara Ó Briain warned that Twitter faced an exodus of users if such messages continued to be disseminated. He tweeted: "If the ladies leave twitter because of all the dumb, rapey 14-year-old boys, then I'm outta here people. Like most grownup men too, I'd say." "

[emmie]

i don't do media sites, like twitter, or facebook, i know ome people on here do, but quite frankly the whole idea of giving out lots of private info is totally anathema to me.

[ChillDoubt]

I'm yet to fathom the attraction of wanting to basically send a text message to the whole world.

Maybe some day I'll get it.......

[jno]

this woman didn't give out particularly private information, she just campaigned to put Jane Austen on the £10 note...

[emmie]

but why in which case would anyone send her these messages, for wanting to put a woman's face on a British note, it's horrible

[Gromit]

I sure the suffragettes got many a poison pen letter, and this really is no different. That did not mean the Royal Mail had to stop or had to check everyones mail for nastiness before they delivered it.

People who use Facebook, Twitter etc do so at their own risk. These services are very good, but they are public, so it is possible (usually unlikely) that they will attract a cranks interest.

I am not defending the horrible tweets or tweeter. I just think that people who want to ban or censor or control internet services are missing the the real culprits.

[emmie]

i hope that something is done about this, a report button is a start, not sure honestly how effective it would be.

"
She reported them to the police after receiving "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours" and said she had "stumbled into a nest of men who co-ordinate attacks on women".

[emmie]

death threats and rape, really...

[Gromit]

Emily Davison (the suffragette who jumped under the King's racehorse)...

// In the papers, sympathy for Emily was in short supply. The Times called her ‘demented’, the London Evening Standard denounced her as ‘entirely unbalanced’, and the Daily Mail labelled her ‘a notorious militant with a thirst for martyrdom’. There was an immediate flood of poison-pen letters from the public. //

As she lay dying in hospital, the general public wrote her nasty letters.

[emmie]

according to a recent documentary she wasn't even liked by the suffragette movement, a rogue element i think she was called. This by the way is 2013, haven't we moved on a bit since those sexist days. Had you received a threatening text, dependant on the nature of the wording, wouldn't you report it to the police, i know i would and have.

[Gromit]

Emmie,

A poster on AB recently wrote that I should die. It was removed. I did not report it to the police.

// haven't we moved on a bit since those sexist days // Maybe a littlle, but there are still many men who are anti feminist.

[FredPuli43]

Re Wilding Davison, I have a telegram expressing sympathy for the victim of this tragedy. It talks of the these mad women! It was sent to Jones, the jockey, by the Queen! He was riding Anmer, her husband's colt, when it was brought down. Not a word of sympathy for the woman's family, but plenty for him.

[emmie]

yes there are, but of course it's not acceptable, and if some people can raise awareness by their disapproval of such vile posts, then they can go some way to having them removed.

[emmie]

in the same way you can on AB.

[Baby_Sham]

You'll always get people like this, though. It's not just Twitter, or Facebook either. Dare I mention the 'other side', where death threats and rape were both common subjects and threats. That's just how some people, ok unhinged people, behave.

I doubt very much a report button would make a huge difference to the keyboard warriors.

[emmie]

other side, no idea what that means.