Why do people write abuse on the internet? Because they can

I was away last week, filled with joy and love following the birth of our child, but just occasionally I’d check the multi-character psychodrama that is Twitter to stop myself getting too soppy.

I sort of agree with Caitlin Moran’s stance in principle; if people are behaving appallingly on Twitter, Twitter should kick them out. If I ran a pub and people were driving away women with foul language, I needn’t call the police, but I’d have every right to bar them.

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Debbie Hayton

The gender war is slowly being won. But there’s no room for complacency

What is problematic is that the organisers of Trolliday do not see this as a question of manners, but of misogyny – hate crime, in other words. Considering the outrage there was over recent plans to restrict pornography just a tiny bit, few people ever object to the far more illiberal and authoritarian concept of criminalising misogyny, racism and homophobia.