Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
99.9% of people online manage to delete scam emails from Nigerian royalty or swipe away mobile texts from a bank you don't have an account with and ignore it. Idiots spouting abuse on twitter etc. should be no more difficult to skim over and I suspect that was largely the case until legacy media began to make a huge issue of it, out of pure self-interest seeing that social media has played a very big part in their downfall and undermined their reputation as a trusted source of information. It suits governments too to use online abuse as an excuse to clamp down on free speech.
For a moment there I thought you were saying that personal abuse on social media is no worse, and as easy to deal with, as a scam email from a foreign country.

That would obviously be ridiculous wouldn't it? There is a much easier way for people to deal with abuse which is posted - all that it needs is for the abuse to stop. To say 'ignore it' puts the blame on the receiver if they don't (ie It's your fault for reading it). Much better imo to say 'stop it' to the sender.

I can't say that I have seen online abuse from our Government - maybe you have some examples?