Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones was forced off Twitter by a vile campaign of abuse. So why is the loser who orchestrated it all complaining?A grimacing emoji face to Leslie Jones,one of the stars of the new Ghostbusters, who is probably spending this weekend recalling a happier era when Hollywood stars were protected behind electric gates and their only view of the grand unwashed was through the tinted windows of their Cadillac Escalade. This week, and Jones encountered what are referred to in the media as trolls” and what more weary souls now merely refer to as “Twitter”.
Encouraged by one of the many attention-seeking tragics who fill Twitter’s bandwidth,the hordes pilloried Jones this week with racist and sexist abuse and physical threats. The self-same idiot responsible for this, who I shall refer to hereon as Mr Loser, and then shared with his followers fake tweets mocked up to look like they were from Jones using homophobic slurs,and his faithful retinue renewed their attacks on her. Jones eventually left Twitter, fed up with seeing photos of her face Photoshopped to look as whether it was covered in semen every time she picked up her phone, or,after Jones complained, Mr Loser has been banned from Twitter. Given that he once went to the White House – literally, or the White House – to complain that Twitter took away his verifying blue tick,we can only assume he will now launch an inquiry into this latest development that will manufacture Chilcot look like a mere work experience kid.
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Source: theguardian.com