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http://www.businessinsider.com/brianna-wu-harassed-twitter-2... (Trigger warning: contains mildly redacted actual death threats)

(mind you, the whole question of #twitterjoketrial was whether "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" constituted an offence against the Communications Act 2003 by being of a "menacing" character.)



What reason is there to believe that Wu (aka John Walker Flynt) and the businessinsider report are credible sources? There are financial interest at play here that I'm not being given sufficiently strong reasons to ignore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias


But that's an isolated incident. Those aren't common, and even if they were common, Twitter is great about reporting those people to the police.




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