JKR takes on the victim blamers over the pornography tweeted at children

So on the one hand he's saying this:

"Perplexed by that tweet. You said the Ickabog was for seven to nine year olds. The lower age limit for twitter is 13."

So he knows that children aged 13 are allowed onto the site and many will be following JKR.

But when it's pointed out that for younger children, their parents will be tweeting their artwork he says this:

"But it raises the question why Jo is talking about needing to protect children"

I'm sure he already knows this but Jo is talking about needing to protect children because:

1. 13 year olds ARE children.

1. Younger children still might have some access to the site, regardless of whether or not they should and responsible adults know this.

1. By reporting the perverts responsible but refusing to otherwise engage with them, she's protecting everyone else from having to see the images (including the people in the images should they need to be protected) in the best way possible, regardless of how old they may be because it's not just children who don't want to see it (and that's exactly while the vile fuckers posting it are doing it, because they know that and do does he).

I don't use social media = It doesn't count when I do it.

I don't use social media

Is MN not social media?

I’m glad I don’t use Twitter. It sounds grim. Why would you run a promotion aimed at kids on a site that has porn on it. The whole thing is disgusting

Can you be more specific? What's disgusting? Twitter? The porn on there? Kids promotion? Those posting the porn?

I mean if it was only fans then you would have a point, but Twitter is a cesspit if that's all you look at, like Facebook they use an algorithm that send you more of what you look at. So you see porn, because that's what you look for. Who's fault is that? JKR doesn't make you.

"I don't use social media so miss all the drama but know the minutiae of JK Rowling's tweets last year"

I’m confused. I though she did say that last year when she was arguing on Twitter? Or was it a fake tweet? I don’t use social media so I miss all this drama.

Surprisingly well informed about what happens on Twitter for someone who doesn't use social media, aren't you? I know various people who wouldn't have a clue what this was about.

Imagine your whole claim to fame being 'I harassed JKRowling'?
I'm actually embarrassed for them.

I often wonder if these people will look back in shame at some of their online antics in years to come. I certainly cringe at some of the stupid sh!t I did as a teenager, but theirs in online forever in all it's glory.

It’s the people that pos5 porn that you should be disgusted at

I’m glad I don’t use Twitter. It sounds grim. Why would you run a promotion aimed at kids on a site that has porn on it. The whole thing is disgusting.

What social media platform has ‘no porn’ ? Genuinely, can you tell us what Joanne Rowling SHOULD have used to try to provide some entertainment for locked down kids?

And do you think that those posting porn and horrific threats were righteous in their tactics then? Do you support the attacks on Joanne Rowling or indeed any person disagreeing with the current rhetoric?

I think a lot of these people are children, or at least very young. In kids, I think it's forgivable, they just don't understand the full extent of what's going on and want to fit in with whatever's fashionable. Their brains haven't fully developed until their mid-twenties (no offence to all the wonderful young people who aren't like this, but it's a fact). The older ones have only misogyny and narcissism to blame.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt…..do you honestly stand by what you just wrote or are you on a wind up?

The Internet has a lot to answer for. Bringing all these inadequate twats together to encourage each other in their unoriginal misogyny.

That is why I loved JKR's tweet: "I'll give you a moment to think hard about..." Exactly how one talks to a child. Bloody brilliant.

A lot of the TRAs on Twitter remind me of little children saying "Mummy, such and such called me xxx" but never get the "and what did you do?" response.

RaindropsOnRosie
She should have her devices taken off her so she doesn't keep posting on Twitter.

Absolutely Pathetic 🤣

Way to infantilise a grown woman btw, RaindropsOnRosie. That's some stellar feminism!

I hope she is considering suing them - rather a defamatory tweet

Because that's not the majority. If you rule out that, better avoid Facebook or Instagram as things fall through there that you wouldn't want children to see.

And TikTok.

Better give Pride and public libraries a swerve too!

True. And bookshops. (Weren't people complaining about a JKR or similar author's book being promoted at Waterstones a while ago?)

I first saw a porn mag flapping about discarded on a pathway.
My own fault for walking outside the house, I'm sure.