Literally, one guy with 2.8 MILLION FOLLOWERS attacking another with 5.5 MILLION FOLLOWERS and a bunch of TV pundits, too:
Up-to and including apparent “we shall fight them on the beached” anti-German sentiment?
Remember that thing in the Online Safety Bill re: how it was needed to stop anonymous abuse of footballers & other sportspeople? It seems they’re perfectly good at abusing each other…
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2 responses to “Remember that thing in the Online Safety Bill re: how it was needed to stop anonymous abuse of footballers & other sportspeople? It seems they’re perfectly good at abusing each other…”
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@alecm It was an interesting bit of confused thinking. Why did politicians all think anonymity encouraged online abuse when all the evidence showed abusers and trolls were largely not anonymous accounts?
Presumably because when MPs receive abuse from a Twitter account with ‘handle’ rather than real name, so they don’t know who it is, they assume that person is anonymous. I wonder if they think people who use nicknames IRL are hiding behind anonymity?
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Good catch.
“re: how it was needed to stop anonymous abuse of footballers & other sportspeople?”
A manifestation of the concept called “human shields.” Also known as “will someone please think of the children!”
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