If you don’t know who Lauren O’Neil is, here’s a quick primer. She’s one half of the CBC Community Team and here’s how she describes herself:
A longtime Internet culture geek and creative Jill of all trades, my passions for writing, technology and web video are what led me into the world of online journalism. I love nothing more than talking to Canadians and telling their stories. I am rarely spotted without an iPhone in hand Tweeting photos of everything that strikes my fancy.
She’s also got a very popular Twitter feed that as I type this has over 54 thousand followers. And it was a Tweet on Sunday that set off what has to be considered a bit of a crapstorm. Here’s the Tweet in question:
I encourage you to read the article that Ms. O’Neil linked to. It basically describes how women are in short, degraded, demeaned, and picked apart by online trolls for incredibly trivial reasons such as looks. This is an issue that really needs to be discussed as this sort of behavior is completely unacceptable in a civilized society.
Sadly, it seems that the trolls targeted Ms. O’Neil. Here are a few examples:
https://twitter.com/GailBedecker/status/597549140663476224
https://twitter.com/Judge___Holden/status/597543222013865984
https://twitter.com/DeePeeTaco/status/597538931370893312
https://twitter.com/WhotheHecktor/status/597501343989772288
https://twitter.com/scarmine34/status/597500475345211392
What does Ms. O’Neil think of this? Here’s her response:
Here’s my view on this. The day that this whole thing broke out on was Mother’s Day. The day that we honor all of the things that the most important women in our lives do for us. Such as give birth to us and raise us to be decent human beings. At least that’s the theory. Given the reaction to Ms. O’Neil’s Tweet, it shoots the decent human beings part right out of the sky. Internet trolls need to be exterminated off the face of the Earth. The best way to do that is to treat them like cockroaches. Shine a light on them. Expose them. Then stomp on them. These people, if you want to call them that, don’t deserve to be treated any better than that.
Now, can we all be better behaved on the Internet? Please.
UPDATE: Ms. O’Neil reached out to me via Twitter Direct Message to make a clarification (click to enlarge):
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Lauren O’Neil Targeted By Twitter Trolls Simply For Pointing Out How Badly Women Are Treated Online [UPDATED]
If you don’t know who Lauren O’Neil is, here’s a quick primer. She’s one half of the CBC Community Team and here’s how she describes herself:
A longtime Internet culture geek and creative Jill of all trades, my passions for writing, technology and web video are what led me into the world of online journalism. I love nothing more than talking to Canadians and telling their stories. I am rarely spotted without an iPhone in hand Tweeting photos of everything that strikes my fancy.
She’s also got a very popular Twitter feed that as I type this has over 54 thousand followers. And it was a Tweet on Sunday that set off what has to be considered a bit of a crapstorm. Here’s the Tweet in question:
I encourage you to read the article that Ms. O’Neil linked to. It basically describes how women are in short, degraded, demeaned, and picked apart by online trolls for incredibly trivial reasons such as looks. This is an issue that really needs to be discussed as this sort of behavior is completely unacceptable in a civilized society.
Sadly, it seems that the trolls targeted Ms. O’Neil. Here are a few examples:
https://twitter.com/GailBedecker/status/597549140663476224
https://twitter.com/Judge___Holden/status/597543222013865984
https://twitter.com/DeePeeTaco/status/597538931370893312
https://twitter.com/WhotheHecktor/status/597501343989772288
https://twitter.com/scarmine34/status/597500475345211392
What does Ms. O’Neil think of this? Here’s her response:
Here’s my view on this. The day that this whole thing broke out on was Mother’s Day. The day that we honor all of the things that the most important women in our lives do for us. Such as give birth to us and raise us to be decent human beings. At least that’s the theory. Given the reaction to Ms. O’Neil’s Tweet, it shoots the decent human beings part right out of the sky. Internet trolls need to be exterminated off the face of the Earth. The best way to do that is to treat them like cockroaches. Shine a light on them. Expose them. Then stomp on them. These people, if you want to call them that, don’t deserve to be treated any better than that.
Now, can we all be better behaved on the Internet? Please.
UPDATE: Ms. O’Neil reached out to me via Twitter Direct Message to make a clarification (click to enlarge):
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