Jo Cox's murder was followed by 50,000 tweets celebrating her death

Nick Lowles, chief executive of anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate, which backed the report, said: “Mair acted alone but he was inspired by over 30 years of reading Nazi propaganda.

Ziz wrote:More than 50,000 abusive and offensive tweets were sent celebrating Labour MP Jo Cox’s murder and lauding her killer, Thomas Mair, as a “hero” or “patriot” in the month following her death, prompting calls for the government to do more to tackle hate speech online.

According to researchers on the social media site, the tweets were sent from at least 25,000 individuals and have been interpreted by hate crime campaigners as a sign of an emboldened extreme rightwing support base.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/26/jo-coxs-was-followed-by-50000-tweets-celebrating-her-death

Alt-Right/Alt-Scum.

Raggamuffin wrote:Does it even fit the definition of a hate speech?

Ziz wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Does it even fit the definition of a hate speech?

Don't think so - strictly speaking, there is no victim here unless the close family can be legally said to be victims.

It is a shocking indictment of what our country has become, though.

Ziz wrote:More than 50,000 abusive and offensive tweets were sent celebrating Labour MP Jo Cox’s murder and lauding her killer, Thomas Mair, as a “hero” or “patriot” in the month following her death, prompting calls for the government to do more to tackle hate speech online.

According to researchers on the social media site, the tweets were sent from at least 25,000 individuals and have been interpreted by hate crime campaigners as a sign of an emboldened extreme rightwing support base.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/26/jo-coxs-was-followed-by-50000-tweets-celebrating-her-death

Alt-Right/Alt-Scum.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Ziz wrote:More than 50,000 abusive and offensive tweets were sent celebrating Labour MP Jo Cox’s murder and lauding her killer, Thomas Mair, as a “hero” or “patriot” in the month following her death, prompting calls for the government to do more to tackle hate speech online.

According to researchers on the social media site, the tweets were sent from at least 25,000 individuals and have been interpreted by hate crime campaigners as a sign of an emboldened extreme rightwing support base.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/26/jo-coxs-was-followed-by-50000-tweets-celebrating-her-death

Alt-Right/Alt-Scum.

Doesn't surprise me.   Look at people who wish death on others on something as trivial as a forum.  

Ziz wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:

Doesn't surprise me.   Look at people who wish death on others on something as trivial as a forum.  

You have a point - but the forum shite is in the heat of moment - this was cold hate.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Ziz wrote:

You have a point - but the forum shite is in the heat of moment - this was cold hate.

Heat of the moment?  I don't think so.    I also don't think that's any excuse for wishing someone dead.  It's the vilest way to try and get at someone.   People think they are invisible online, but that's just not so.  

eddie wrote:I don't think I'll ever understand the human race.