Why
some people choose to
take on
their Twitter trolls
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 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.
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Why did Twitter take so long to finally ban one of its biggest trolls?
Twitter has an abuse problem — one that has been
documented over,
and over, and
over again. 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.
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