to think that what Piers Morgan is doing on twitter to Meghan is harassment / stalking and he should be reported?

[JoHarrison]

Fellow twitter users - I don't follow Piers Morgan on twitter but I've seen a lot of his tweets about Harry and particularly Meghan retweeted by others. I can't believe the vitriol he has for her. I've reported many of them to twitter as "targeted harassment" (one of the twitter report categories) but of course twitter has done nothing.
Surely his abusive behaviour is something that no woman should have to put up with? (but of course Meghan's hands are tied - she can't say or do anything). Why don't the police have a word? (because if someone was running that sort of campaign against me, I would be asking them to). Or at least twitter do something about him - shut him down for a couple of weeks maybe?

So you all seem to find some measly tweets to be "harassment" but couldn't understand the poster of the thread about how modern metoo/snowflake culture is killing "flirting". Irony.

eh?

Susanna Ried told him off this morning for "going on about them"
Good for her.

I know ITV and the BBC are bound by different codes of conduct (as far as I can see GMB doesn't have one!) but compare his unfettered rants to the mild comment Naga Munchetty made about Trump, and how she was censured.

He is vile about her and ought to stop but obviously he finds it amusing and nothing will happen to him. Unfortunately.

Journalists have to be allowed to criticise public figures as much as they want.

If you look at the relevant protection from harassment legislation, what he is doing goes beyond what is permitted. Obviously - unless he escalates it - no-one is likely to do anything about it, but it's worth noting that he is actually now acting unlawfully and his bosses should be concerned about that.

I absolutely don't blame them for wanting out. Would she and Harry have had to put up with this if she hadn't been mixed race and not English?

I hope Morgan has killed a goose which was laying a golden egg for him, and it serves him right.

busybarbara, unless all or most of the posters on this thread have also posted on the other thread, you have made a total non-point. MN is enormous, you know, and amazingly enough different users have different opinions.

Naive also to think you can publicise yourself via social media and chase followers without other scrutiny

So they have an Instagram account which they post to now and again?
So does the Queen, so do many other public figures, businesses and institutions - even the library where I work has one. I wouldn't say that two or three non-controversial posts on SM a week about public engagements undertaken in the name of good causes are prostituting yourself on social media!

Would she and Harry have had to put up with this if she hadn't been mixed race and not English?

I hope Morgan has killed a goose which was laying a golden egg for him, and it serves him right.

Quite. If Meghan was posh and British or Cressida Wotsit had been dumb enough to think being married to a royal would be at all fun, the right wing media would be slobbering all over them.

He’s such a pathetic excuse for a human being and his obsession around her is actually scary.

Canada wouldn’t be far enough for me, I’d be wanting to relocate to the moon to get away from him.

That guardian article is very interesting. The state of journalism in this country is disgraceful. He’s determined to break H&M so that they drop their suit against him. I sincerely hope it doesn’t work.

Eamonn Holmes got a bollocking, rightly so, for calling Meghan uppity on This Morning yet Piers Morgan has been on his soap box on GMB spewing hate against Meghan, unchecked, for the past 2 years. It's baffling.

I saw someone tweet, the other day, that he'd tweeted 16 times about Meghan that day. It wasn't even teatime. He needs help, imo. And he's one of the biggest reasons that they're going.

I’m not on Twitter etc so I haven’t seen any of his tweets, but so can’t understand why this man is given so much airtime at all? I saw him rambling on about Meghan one morning on GMTV and I couldn’t believe it, tbh. Why is he so invested in this? Why does he think he’s relevant? He sounds obsessed and unhinged, frankly. Unbearable, petty little man. Regardless of this royal family business, why don’t ITV just sack him already? He’s the worst of Britain. It’s not a Good Morning at all when you have to listen to his pathetic drivel.

yep he has literally just been at it again on good morning britain.
have you seen the latest video harry put out.it was so hard to hear.once again him trying to tell people the truth in such a dignified and as veiled way possible as to not just let fucking rip at everyone.
this is so obviously not what he wanted to do.he bloody said as much but people like bloody morgan has made them almost flee for their sanity

It honestly is like he's obsessed with her. Odious cock.

He is a nasty piece of work and I don't know how he's allowed to get away with the bile. It's not as if he's unbiased. It would be nice if they could prosecute him. Perhaps they will do.

He his a loathsome, corrupt, vitriolic wanker. The phone hacking cases are still being heard and Harry’s is one of them, hence his vitriol...plus his stalker behaviour towards Meghan.
The man needs to be stopped.

The problem is that though he broadly loathed on MN, he is presumably loved in GMB otherwise they'd get rid of him. It's a massive audience crossover with people who read the DM, Express and the Sun, who love to be whipped up into a frenzy by celebrity news and slagging off of people who are rich and/or successful.

He won't get censured for his campaign against MM, which he actually admits is down to her dropping him. His ego is as big as a planet, and he is the type whose vindictiveness knows no bounds when he feels he's been dissed. The best thing we can do is ignore him. That's what he hates most. He loves any attention, even negative attention.

He's truly loathsome though.

So you all seem to find some measly tweets to be "harassment" but couldn't understand the poster of the thread about how modern metoo/snowflake culture is killing "flirting". Irony.

The only irony here is that in an attempt to minimise harassment-dressed-up-as-flirting and imply that #metoo sounds the death knell to human interaction between the sexes, you have turned to this thread to minimise... basic harassment.

@Lordfrontpaw

A part of me wonders if he does this in collaboration with his ‘target’ to whip up public comment and sympathy - like a pantomime villain

Ah. The before I can say whether the events were bad, I need to check what she was wearing to see if she led him on school of thought.

If he had gone after Kate the same way the palace would have been all over it immediately.

No - I have just known journalists (in the okden days) and creating public ‘spats’ for whatever reason was a tactic used by PRs. So please don’t compare me to a rape apologist.

There are people on Mumsnet who are just as bad. I think @mnhq should be stopping all threads like they did with Gina Ford
Totally agree and I've emailed saying how shocked I am at how these threads can stay up.

FFS one on Katie Price was pulled a month or so ago because it wasn't in the spirit of MN. As are ones onVictoria Beckham. Yet the TENTH thread pulling her and him apart are still going on.

@Winebottle
Please read this which will explain why Piers Morgan is NOT entitled to criticise anyone he likes.
Over at the Mirror Group, there is a similar shyness about allowing daylight into the activities of past executives. Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, one of the most vehement critics of the royal couple, does not find time or space to let his readers or viewers know that his name crops up very many times in the generic phone-hacking litigation particulars of claims in front of Mann. Morgan may be entirely innocent, but if you spend your time pouring venom over a claimant in a case that might touch on your own conduct, you’d think there was at least an interest to declare – every single time you do it.*

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/19/there-is-a-reason-why-royals-demonised-but-wont-read-all-about-it-prince-harry-meghan-markle

Whilst I think Piers is behaving atrociously, I feel uncomfortable at the idea that his expression of views on Twitter should be "stopped".

If GMB receive complaints, then as his employer they are obviously well within their rights to tell him to STFU. But when he posts on Twitter as a private individual, I think it sets a dangerous precedent for an individual to be stopped from expressing their opinion.

Threats, racial abuse etc obviously should be dealt with, but strongly saying he doesn't like some one and giving the reasons why? Well, if he was stopped from doing that, what would the cut off be? Would it become a crime for anyone to express negative views about someone which may hurt their feelings?

If it doesn't meet the legal criteria for harassment, then as the saying goes, I may loathe what he says, but I will defend to the end his right to say it.

I noticed yesterday that The Secret Barrister (for whom I have much respect) had commented about Morgan's behaviour on Twitter, mentioning The Protection from Harrassment Act and referring to his 'obsessive, unhinged behaviour'.

Piers Morgan is vile. And totally obsessed with MM. To say 'a few tweets' upthread. You obviously haven't been on his twitter feed. It is constant

I realised he is unhinged when he linked a message from her from six years ago. It was a 'nice to meet you' message from her to him or something equally innocuous. Who keeps messages for six years????