Huh. @EFF released a statement on online harassment: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/facing-challenge-online-harassment …
(h/t @shanley)
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Now that I feel safer: I received a frightening rape threat via Twitter that made me leave Twitter for a while .
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When a group of us wrote about our reasons for
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My personal thing with Twitter isn't about plagiarism. It's about getting a rape threat. That no one cares about.
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I can tweet about mundane things and get a ton of RTs and favs. But I tweet about rape threats and hear crickets.
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This is one of the many ways that the Twitter parallels real life: no one is really going to give a fuck about your safety if you're a woc.
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