Digital Harassment Quotes

There's always going to be some hate on the Internet.

People feel so much more comfortable bullying behind a screen than in person. It gives them a mystique and makes them say things that they would never be strong enough to say in person.

The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do, and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about 'this is what's happening to the blogosphere.'

Most of you probably already know this but for those who don't, I was a bit of a trailblazer in the field of salacious photos released without consent.

Cyberbullying is an issue that affects all of us and demands that Canadians work together to put an end to it. This national public awareness campaign is an important step in protecting our children online. Along with our government’s introduction of Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, we are taking clear action to tackle cyberbullying.

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

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

There are people creating Photoshopped pictures of me getting beat as if I were a slave back in the day.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

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

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

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.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

The constant abuse of online activity must stop.

Treat haters in your online spaces just the same as you would in the real world. If they're not respectful to you and your customers, kick them out.

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

Why do people think that it's appropriate to talk to me about my body? Why do men think it's appropriate to literally write comments that not only I will see but that the world will see about my breast size, the clothes I should be taking off, the kinds of things they want to see more of on Instagram, which all refer to my body. And that's not even getting into the threats of violence. And they come every day. They come every day. And it's wild to me that people think this stuff is appropriate.

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way.

I get to reach out to over a million people ever yday on Twitter and enlighten them with what I feel about cyberbullying, and I - what I think you can do to avoid it, and the places you can visit online that are safe.

Online abuse has been a problem since the earliest days of the web.

When people say, "Show your face, you're not ugly." I want to say, "I know. I'm not doing it because I think I'm ugly; I'm trying to have some control over my image. And I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also I'd like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on ten pounds or I have a hair extension out of place." Most people don't have to be under that pressure, and I'd like to be one of them. I don't go on Twitter. Because when people say things like, I don't know, "I hope you get cancer and die," it hurts my feelings.

Online bullying has to stop.