Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

I was actually cyberstalked twice.

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.

I don't want to be followed by random men I don't know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can't post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.

People have posted my personal information on the Internet. This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were forced to move out of our home.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

There's some weirdos out there, a few stalker fans out there, but nothing I can't handle. People are just going out of their way to hunt down information and get a hold of me. People call obsessively or things like that.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on. Just because you're not at school doesn't mean kids aren't harassing you on the computer.

I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.

Online bullying has to stop.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

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.

My husband had a stalker, briefly.

It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

I think what a lot of women in the game industry saw with Gamergate is they saw if they came forward, help was not going to come.

I've got terrible hate mail basically saying I'm vile and evil.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'

I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.