Why some people choose to take on their Twitter trolls

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Why some people choose to take on their Twitter trolls
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For many groups, among them women, people of colour and the LGBTQ community, Twitter can be an endless sink of emotional energy.

In just one week, the Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones signed off (https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755271004520349698) after being subject to a deluge of abuse, and the platform's hand was forced when it came to Milo Yian**poulos, conservative pundit and the pied piper of a thousand egg profiles, who was finally banned (http://mashable.com/2016/07/19/twitter-bans-nero/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).

SEE ALSO: Why did Twitter take so long to finally ban one of its biggest trolls? (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/twitter-harassment-**t-e**ugh/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


Twitter has an abuse problem — one that has been documented over (http://mashable.com/2014/08/13/zelda-williams-quits-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and over (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/leslie-jones-milo-yian**poulos-celebrities-quit-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and over again (http://mashable.com/2015/05/25/twitter-suspends-chuck-johnson/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial). For years **w, choosing to have an opinion on social media is to be forced to decide how much time and emotional space to give others. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/why-interact-twitter-trolls/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


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