Trolls Wish Baby Dead

[dannyk13]

Is this the way that Labour thinks it can win over the public?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5187081/Left-wing-trolls-threaten-Tory-MP-heckled-Corbyn.html

[sp1814]

dannyk13

Is the Labour Party responsible for what people write on Twitter now?

If Labour are, then by the same token, are the Tories (or indeed the Daily Mail) responsible for this message?

https://twitter.com/stickman_v7/status/942325868449402880

[dannyk13]

sp. This is the hard left faction of the Labour Party

[emmie]

i don't understand either mindset, what make people say and do such things is quite beyond me, it really is......

[Eleena]

emmie, social media is rife with trolls. It's a sickness.

[ToraToraTora]

all pretty standard stuff from the party of Hate (POH)

[emmie]

its barbarous, all this name calling and telling the wife hope the baby dies, cruel beyond my comprehension.

[mikey4444]

TTT...drivel. This is no more indicative of the Labour Party, than the death threats directed at the Tory rebels, from Tory Party.

This is just the work of stupid Trolls and nothing else should be written into it

[Eleena]

Trolls are an empty shell emmie, narcissists don't/ can't feel emotion. Means zilch to them.

[dannyk13]

Mikey
//Corbyn's attack was seized on by Labour MPs who attacked the Tory on Twitter and provided his Twitter handle, setting off the social media tsunami//

[emmie]

appalling which ever way you look at it, these are the same people who get involved in peaceful demo's, you see it all the time, rabble rouser's of the first order, despicable people.

[ToraToraTora]

yes mikey but the left are emerging as the nasties these days and these trolls are clearly Labour supporters encouraged by Jezza.

[Kromovaracun]

People who go to the lengths of fully joining a political party tend in general to be awful human beings, so it would not surprise me if the people doing this were indeed members. It is very strange how every political issue in Britain seems to escalate to hatred and venom, and this is a particularly cruel and vicious incidence of that.

[sp1814]

TTT

//but the left are emerging as the nasties these days//

No. It's anyone who has a beef an access to Twitter.

Would you like some other examples?

For instance, In October 2015, then-18-year-old Lauren Batchelder asked President Trump a question at a political forum in New Hampshire. She asked “So, maybe I’m wrong, maybe you can prove me wrong, but I don’t think you’re a friend to women,” she said. Trump defended himself, and Batchelder took the mic again, asking if she’d get equal pay and access to abortion with Trump as president. Trump answered: “You’re going to make the same if you do as good of a job, and I happen to be pro-life, okay?”

Batchelder thought that was the end of it, but when she woke up the next day, she realized that Trump had sent out a series of tweets about her. His followers replied with screenshots of Batchelder and posted her phone number and other personal information online.

Within hours, her phone began to ring, and her email inbox and Facebook account filled with threatening messages.

One Trump supporter sent her a Facebook message five days before the election that read:

“Wishing I could ****ing punch you in the face. I'd then proceed to stomp your head on the curb and urinate in your bloodied mouth and I know where you live, so watch your ****ing back punk.”

[sp1814]

TTT

Would you say that 'the Right' have also got a strong presence in 'the nasties' camp?

[emmie]

that makes AB positively sane.

[jackthehat]

Twitter, and similar, have given a platform to those who would have, in years gone by, been confined to writing their splenetic views in green ink and reliant on Royal Mail to deliver them....

[sp1814]

jackthehat

Exactly.

Twitter is a platform which can be used in a hugely positive way, but at the same time, it needs to be carefully policed, because there are plenty of people out there who will use it to abuse and intimidate. If anyone sends a message which is threatening or in any way calls for violence against the recipient, they should be tracked down, arrested and charged.

[Kromovaracun]

I'm not actually sure I agree that twitter needs "policing." There is abundant evidence that the site is developing algorithms that detect "hate speech" and selectively remove it in a heavily biased way. It has also given them carte blanche to mine ever more data out of their users in the name of "cleaning up" the platform and selling it on quietly to the highest bidder. This is a process which actually undermines the positive aspects of social media. Andof course all that is before you get to ridiculous instances like the one in Scotland recently where police actually took action against a man for teaching his dog how to Hitler salute for a silly joke (which is obviously not hate speech). The 'cure' for this may well be worse than the disease.

[kvalidir]

It's a vile thing to do, and no-one should do that irrelevant of their political persuasion, and death threats should be investigated by the police, however TWITTER is not to be taken seriously generally as it's rife with Trolls on every subject imaginable. I caught a lot of flack because one troll, soon joined by a bevvy of others, one of whom revealed in a torrent of abuse not only am I FAT I am also GINGER naturally, which apparently is also a cardinal sin lol) deemed me too large (size 12) to be cast in a role I had. I have been stalked and threatened via Twitter, but that is simply the nature of the very small but potently horrible group of people who inhabit it because they have no fecking lives. Jeremy Corbyn does not condone this,anyone who thinks he does is just nuts.

[dannyk13]

Kvalidir
This did not originate on Twitter,It started in the House of Commons and then to Twitter