Female Politicians Clamour For A Clamp Down On Online Abuse Against Women On Twitter
Nicola Sturgeon, Ruth Davidson, and Kezia Dugdale are supporting an Amnesty International campaign which claims that Twitter has become baneful for women. The three women reported that they had been threatened with death and rape on the social network. Twitter disagrees with the human rights group; says its network has no power to "delete hatred and prejudice from the society." It"s worse on social media because there"s no real conversation taking place, so it"s much easier for people to become toxic behind their keyboards. It emphasised further that it had reviewed its policies severally to improve safety and curtail abusive tweets on its network. The #ToxicTwitter campaign features interviews of over 80 women which give detail on violence and abuse against women on issues about race and sexual preferences. These women are threatened with rape and death on a daily, with journalists and public figures being targets. Twitter users who are not public figures w...