O/T Online cowards.

[Andy_Faber]

Wow...it’s another world. If nothing else this thread has served to make me feel increasingly naive.

So, back on topic...as someone apparently much more ‘itk’...what can be done to stop those who use the online cloak of (apparently questionable) anonymity to abuse and threaten others?

Lots can be done, lots no doubt IS done, but once it’s done it’s done, and has the emotional impact on the victim, and that applies whether online or not - no different calling someone a hateful name online now than scrawling ‘Pauline Hunt is a ****’ anonymously on a school blackboard in1971, the hate hasnt changed just the medium