(80) Labour MP says she may leave Twitter over trolls' rape abuse

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/31/labour-mp-jess-phillips-says-she-may-leave-twitter-over-trolls-abuse

 

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A Labour MP has said she may leave Twitter after trolls sent her more than 600 messages in one night about raping her. Jess Phillips spoke out after a wave of abuse was launched against her, apparently after she replied to one person who said: “I wouldn’t even rape you.” She said: “Until Twitter makes this sort of thing stop happening and stops accepting that this sort of dogpiling and mass bullying can happen, their business model is totally flawed. People who don’t like this feral side of the internet are just going to walk away.”