Refusing to be silent, women are leading research, campaigns and new strategies to stop trolls and create safer online spaces.
Some of the abuse the author received on Facebook in 2012. Image: screenshot.
Back in 2012, I went to the police to report an incident of online harassment. A man had called me an obscene name, threatened to find out where I lived in order to post my details on 4Chan, and wrote “she must pay!!”. He accepted a caution.
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