Tag: online abuse

Twitter has reportedly purchased the anti-abuse technology software developer Smyte.

Twitter revealed it will be banning “hateful display names” and published a timeline for future online safety policy changes.

A new search engine and database says it aims to expose the purveyors of anonymous online ‘hate speech’ to employers, friends, and families.

The victim of an internet troll who agitated for a conviction for “writing malicious blogs” has found himself before the same judge for sending “malicious tweets” of his own, moments after his abuser was sentenced. The bizarre demonstration of the UK’s growing

On Twitter, it’s one rule for celebrities and another for the plebs. An assistant on Community creator Dan Harmon’s podcast was recently unsuspended by the social network despite repeatedly telling people he disagreed with to kill themselves.

Following our report on Google Ideas’ bizarre decision to invite several online abusers to a discussion about preventing online abuse, the organisation’s employees have begun to distance themselves from some of the individuals mentioned in our article. Izzie Zahorian, a designer

New Zealand is a country of almost five million inhabitants, some 29 million sheep and, on the evidence, plenty of hurt feelings. The latter has been tackled by sweeping new parliamentary legislation making cyber-bulling a criminal offence while guaranteeing the protection of  people emotionally