Richard Dawkins Quotes

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.

Categorically to say that all content you don't like receiving is harassment would be such a broad brush it wouldn't leave us much content.

The Internet is a blessing and a curse. I mean, it's a place where lots of people can express themselves, which is amazing, but it's a place where a lot of people can express themselves that probably should keep those expressions to themselves.

The whole social media thing is ridiculous. Everybody gets to say what they want all the time. That's fine in theory, but it's not civilised. Imagine going into a bar, and everybody in that bar is talking like people do online. They'd just get their teeth punched in.

To hide behind a computer and an anonymous persona to spew hate at another person is despicable.

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

I don't really troll the Internet; I'm not young enough.

It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.

I think the thing that bothers me is that there's a component of the Internet where people can write really nasty things anonymously.

In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online.

People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.

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 someone says something vulgar to you and you retweet it, now you're giving them a voice, and you never want to give hate a voice.

Online hate needs to be taken as seriously as offline hate - but it isn't.

I don't need to be on any micro-blogging site, because people don't think about what they say there. At times, people abuse, and it is too harsh for me to handle.

My thing is, if you're going to talk online, if you're going to come at me with a certain energy, when you see me on-site, keep that certain energy. That's it. That's it. That's all I am.

Calling each other faggots behind the keys of a message board.

The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.

You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones who comment "I want to kill you in your sleep," I respond to them too.

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.