Digital Abuse Quotes

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.

GamerGate and what it's been doing, is wrong.

I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it's hard to discern how many people are actually involved.

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.'

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

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

Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they will be targeted and harassed.

It's impossible to put a video online without hoards of anonymous men picking apart your appearance or saying especially cruel things. It works to silence women who shouldn't be scared of sharing their opinions with others.

I was actually cyberstalked twice.

There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

Before the Internet, bullying ended when you withdrew from whatever environment you were in. But now, the bullying dynamic is harder to contain and harder to ignore.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

Many adult bullies hide behind the idea that bullying happens only among children. They conceive of themselves as adults who know better and are offering their hard-earned wisdom to others. The Internet makes that sort of certainty easier to attain: looking at their screens, adult bullies rarely see the impact of their words and actions.

Trolls and cyber bullies have been feeling too safe in the cyber world for too long.

Trolling is an ancient problem. It's been around as long as there has been media.

Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.

When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.

Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber-bullying.

At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.

I've never had a crazy online relationship that's left me vulnerable and embarrassed and humiliated.

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.