Feminists face Twitter abuse after Jane Austen honour

U.K. journalist and New Statesman editor?Laurie Penny joins guest host Terry O'Reilly to discuss the backlash against Caroline Criado-Perez, who?recently championed the campaign to get Jane Austen on the ?10 note. ?

Alongside a wave of congratulations, Criado-Perez was also met with an onslaught of rape and death threats on Twitter -- up to 50 an hour at the height of the backlash.

Most of the tweets sent to her are too graphic to re-post here, but this tweet, for example, offers a glimpse:

Penny, who has also been threatened on Twitter, discusses what it's like to be on the receiving end of these kinds of threats, as well as the responsibility that social media sites like Twitter have to combat online abuse.?

"There have been misogynistic attacks on women for as long as the internet has been around," said Penny, who doesn't believe that censorship is the solution. ?

Have you ever experienced this kind of harassment online? What do you think should be done about it? Is the onus on Twitter to crack down on threats or is there another solution??

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2013/07/30/-uk-feminist-blogger-and/?cmp=rss

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