Ana Kasparian Quotes

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.

With every social media, there's hate and things like that.

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.

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

It is so easy to sit behind a screen and create an account that spreads hate.

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

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.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.

When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.

People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

I think the Internet has given rise to voices that want to attack others.

I had to turn off my Twitter notifications for a while as I got a small minority of people sending me some abusive tweets.

I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn't expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.

Every morning, I take a deep breath and then go online to discover what new insult or smear has been thrown in my direction. Whether it's tweets, blogposts or comment threads, the abuse is as relentless as it is vicious.

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.'

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

I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?

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.

Don't get me wrong: I love social websites like Facebook and Twitter, but I think it creates way too many opportunities for young people to bully.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

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.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

At times, it feels like I'm being cyber bullied.