That's a completely dead way of thinking of the internet
The internet isn't some shady corner of society inhabited by social rejects, it co-exists with the rest of the world, and the mindset it's still somehow some edgy little world where the rules of the rest of society don't apply is very much a dead way of viewing the internet. Why on earth do you think of it as like some bog in the worst pub in the UK? That's entirely the mindset that people have to wake upto that it's not anymore. Our kids, our grandparents, everyone is more or less using it these days and to categorise the whole lot as some fearful, foul dodgy backwater is basically retarded.
Why shouldn't that woman express her opinion that a woman be put on a fucking banknote? Why must she expect the way of the web to think it's somehow acceptable to make threats of violence and sexual violence against her for expressing that opinion? Anyone who thinks she and anyone else must be muted into silence by such intimidation is very much living in some fantasy cyber-reality the rest of us don't want to share, and shouldn't have to share.
So what you do do is send wankers like that to prison, as you would if they had been sending physical letters threatening the same, or spoke like that to someone's face. Most people won't understand this retarded "It's only the internet, don't take it personally," type of crap. They will take threats of rape or violence personally, and they have every right to do so.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 24 Jan 2014, 22:40,
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It's bad for another reason:
It pretty much quashed any chance of campaigning for a more deserving lady (in my opinion), in the form of Ada Lovelace. Jane Austen has had quite enough press compared to someone who has likely had a much larger impact on the modern world.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 24 Jan 2014, 22:56,
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^what he said
The Wild West internet of ten years ago is gone - it's been gentrified. That filthy pub you use as an analogy has been gutted, repainted, and now sells overpriced burgers from menus printed on 200 GSM paper.
The shabby old man who used to prop up the bar, making lewd comments to the barmaid is now treated like the contemptible individual he always was and has been slung out on his arse.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 24 Jan 2014, 22:59,
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I'm with you, I really am
All the best people are here on the web. Everyone's here. And what I was trying to illustrate was that along with the best come the worst. And only they would object to Jane Austen being on a bank note. It's the least objectionable issue imaginable. ANYTHING on here is subject to abuse - memorials to dead children have been subject to venom. And that would be far more deserving of prison time than that poor, sad girl who went down today in her bobble hat who, I'm guessing, has never had a break in her life, and was all excited about being in London...
People shouldn't behave like she did. But given some ill treatment in your youth, you might too.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 24 Jan 2014, 23:12,
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So sending abuse to memorials to dead children is somehow worse than sending threats of rape to women?
I'm not sure I understand that.
"that poor, sad girl who went down today in her bobble hat who, I'm guessing, has never had a break in her life, and was all excited about being in London."
Wow, that actually reads like you genuinely mean it. How mental. If her victim had been a Bangladeshi family and it had been a campaign of racist abuse would she have got such a sympathy vote? I very much doubt it
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 24 Jan 2014, 23:32,
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