Tom Junod Quotes

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.

There’s no point in having an online mob if you can’t give it someone to trample.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I have been trolled for my name, my marriage, my religion, even for my mother.

I think after being kicked and slapped on social media a billion times, I had this one time. This lady said I was a deplorable human being, and that hurt.

We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice.

Miranda's this girl that everyone's just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her.

Gawker thrived on embarrassment and shame, seeking to demolish not just celebrities or politicians but average random people whose sins it would expose for traffic and commenters who gloried in its actions.

You have the right to free speech as an American - you have no right to use YouTube to do it. And the mobs that exist can form very quickly if they are offended by your presence there.

If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would've been on the wrong side.

People conclude that if the famous can be dragged through the virtual public square and unceremoniously dumped, the fate of any random tweeter or the average man or woman on the street can seem even more precarious.

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

Showing your own righteousness by pointing out someone's unrighteousness, the race to the bottom, the transgressions getting smaller and smaller and smaller but still treated with the same level of intolerance and condemnation, all of that stuff, even as I say it I am talking about Twitter but I am thinking about Westboro.

Having social media does open you up to trolling, and mine is always about my skin.

I could go through my Twitter account right now and there would be 10 horrible messages.

I saw some comments in regards to my son, people saying: 'I hope your son gets corona.' That's the hard part for me. If you respond to that, people then go: 'Ah, we've got him' and they keep doing it.

Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don't hesitate to report and block.

You know that social media can be a harsh thing, man.

I'm the king troll: I troll everybody.

If you've spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.

It's unbelievable to me that someone can go on someone's photo and comment on their weight. It's not healthy for anyone.

Twitter has made some improvements on the site and it's important that you can report people - but when you are getting the level of abuse I was, it's an onerous task reporting each and every person.