Beth Tweddle Twitter abuse during a Q&A session
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Yesterday Beth was subjected to appalling abuse via Twitter, during what was supposed to be a question and answer session about women in sport.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/21/olympian-beth-tweddle-twitter-abuse_n_4638545.html
Something really needs to be done about this. Why are Twitter allowing this to continue? People who send abuse like that for the sake of it should have their accounts suspended. You seem to be able to send the most awful racist, sexist and homophobic abuse to others on Twitter and get away with it but they will ban people for "spamming at the drop of a hat? How is that allowed?
I understand freedom of speech and sometimes discussions get heated on there, but targeting people for no apparent reason is wrong and should be stopped.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/21/olympian-beth-tweddle-twitter-abuse_n_4638545.html
Something really needs to be done about this. Why are Twitter allowing this to continue? People who send abuse like that for the sake of it should have their accounts suspended. You seem to be able to send the most awful racist, sexist and homophobic abuse to others on Twitter and get away with it but they will ban people for "spamming at the drop of a hat? How is that allowed?
I understand freedom of speech and sometimes discussions get heated on there, but targeting people for no apparent reason is wrong and should be stopped.
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Hope they all feel like big hilarious men now. Disgusting.
I doubt anyone with a mental age above about 12 would find any of those tweets remotely amusing, each to their own though. It says more about you than it does about me ;-)
Beth is a personal hero for me - should be a dame or CBE in my opinion.
Yeah, course. It says I have a mental age of about 12 and you're an enlightened, compassionate guy, I get it. Where's that yawn smilie when you need him?
Insinuating that all female athletes are lesbians, yes that's so hysterical my sides are aching from laughter....
Saying that pregnancy is an injury is misogynistic and offensive. Where does the prat who said that think he came from, the cabbage patch?
If they were not aimed at her, then who were they aimed at?
Anyone who finds that amusing must have mental health issues.
There was no context, it was totally random. Read the article, some of the tweets are on there.
There are screen grabs of all of the tweets on the article, they are all youngish men.
That's not to say women don't behave badly on Twitter as well, they often do. But in this case the perpetrators are all male.
It's just a bit of childish humour. I'm sorry you're so offended. You should stay off the internet probably.
Honestly, none of those even got me cracking a smile.
In what way are they "pretty funny"?
Good for you.
I don't know. I have been asking people who ever laughed at Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer the same question.
i only signed up to twitter to call Piers Morgan a ****.
Me neither, and I have quite a warped/black sense of humour.
That's mature... Maybe you should get out a bit more?
What on earth have Reeves and Mortimer got to do whether some tweets about sportswomen are funny or not?
That depends on whether that offensiveness drifts over to something illegal such as death threats.
I saw a re-tweeted picture "collage" of some of the racist abuse and death threats that Stan Collymore received the other day. It really disappoints me how these keyboard warriors act and I hope that some of them do get charged.