From the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/18/ashley-judd-to-press-charges-twi...:
"The actor Ashley Judd has said she will inform police about Twitter users who sexually harass her, and press charges against them."...
...Her stance comes as other female stars have stopped using the social network thanks to abuse. Rapper Iggy Azalea wrote that social media “is too negative and draining” and handed her Twitter account to her management, while Lena Dunham said: “I deleted Twitter because I’m trying to create a safer space for myself emotionally.”...
....[T]he company’s CEO Dick Costolo wrote: “We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years... I’m frankly ashamed of how poorly we’ve dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It’s absurd. There’s no excuse for it.”...It shouldn’t be the person who’s being harassed who has to do a lot of work.”
On 18 March 2015 at 14:47, Neotarf neotarf@gmail.com wrote:
From the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/18/ashley-judd-to-press-charges-twi...:
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CEO Dick Costolo wrote: “We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years... I’m frankly ashamed of how poorly we’ve dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It’s absurd. There’s no excuse for it.”...It shouldn’t be the person who’s being harassed who has to do a lot of work.”
Yep. This mirrors my personal painful experience of the English Wikipedia and a sad fact of where internet based society is right now.
If you want to complain about being harassed on Wikimedia projects, as the target of harassment, you have to be *absolutely* squeaky clean. Otherwise you get hauled over the coals for every intemperate response to trolling you have ever made, and your complaint will be taken off on endless tangents until you wished you had just resigned without bothering to say anything.
Fae