Ashleigh Banfield Quotes

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

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.

Trolls live in their own pathetic bubble, and it's called Twitter.

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

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.

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

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

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

I am being savagely bullied online.

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

It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.

My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

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.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

It's never fun to read death threats.

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

I get massive invective, massive abuse, via email, phone messages, and Twitter. From people way, way to the right of center - scary, abusive kind of stuff. Really freaks out my assistant and my wife. Hate-filled.

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

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter's platform.

I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.

For all of the incredible messages I've received about how my visibility is helping people, those people who I follow on social media still receive daily death threats and the most derogatory, inhumane vitriol.

Entering public life as a woman - be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist - makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.