Rape Threats on Twitter

Excellent news that they've nicked this despicable little shit.

Sky News have just said a 21 year old from Manchester has been arrested hope to hear of more arrests. Unless there are consequences to these actions, especially when so overt, they will continue.

They have said on the news earlier that the police are investigating. I am glad to hear that and hope arrests will be made and highly publicised.

"If someone can get arrested for tweeting about blowing up an airport, then surely this deserves real action?"

Quite. Which is more likely? Blowing up an airport of raping someone? Hmm.. let me think...

Exactly Italian they are using the `do not feed the troll' advice for thier own agenda. Good article murder

Since when was the advice to ignore terrible behaviour/threats (or anything else which is cruel) ever a sensible response? In sport if there are racist comments they are (or should be) dealt with, no one would say oh just ignore it they are showing their ignorance! If people shout out in court does the judge just term to the jury and say 'ignore them'.

I've seen people saying "ignore it"

Daft thing is, I was given that advice back when I was at school and I followed it, I was still bullied for another 7 years. It only stopped when I lost my temper and told the bully to fuck off. So I think it is flawed advice, and even more so when you then talk about the internet.

It's also forgetting that trolling isn't necessarily about getting a rise out of the victim. It's also about gaining "cred" with peers. So even if the victims keep quiet and try to ignore the threats, it will still escalate as all the trolls try to out-troll each other. Good article here. Ignoring doesn't make them go away, you are better off taking away something they want eg. twitter access.

Good to see it getting so much coverage on Sky News today - she has come across very well, highlighting a number of issues and I think they are covering a lot of ground on it.
Sky news have even said that people have been telling her to `ignore it' and she has refused to. I will be signing the petition.

I had been following this on twitter. Some of the things that people said to that woman were despicable. It really made me wonder whether parts of society will ever understand how awful this is.

I was also really disappointed with some slebs alluding to the fact that it was just 14 year old boys trolling and that they should be ignored.

I was about to come on and say I was tired of all the "oh it's only twitter" comments..

It's not acceptable anywhere, and leaving the comments up is as good as condoning it. Threats should mean bans.

A bit of perspective please, a few nutters on the internet are not representative of 50% of the population.

On another note why does the BBC 'technology correspondent' have FA better to do than comment on the drivel that low-IQ idiots post on twitter. Twitter qualifies as technology to about the same level as a rolling pin.

Laurie Pennie tweeted something to the effect that Germaine Greer once said that women have no idea how much men hate them, but that thanks to the internet, we now do.

What is very depressing about this is that the usual response to this shit is: well not ALL men do it (so therefore we shouldn't make a fuss about it).

If it were any other group etc.

I wonder how long women and men are going to stubbornly embrace denial about this misogyny problem.

Just reading this. Wondered where the campaign was because could not find it.

uk.news.yahoo.com/twitter-rape-row-abuse-10-note-campaigner-170113413.html#bhgoTMQ

It is total crap and I am just so tired of all this what the f*ck have these people go to do with their time but make threats?