I will not be silenced: Australian Muslim fights Twitter 'troll army'

[yuiyoshida]

(CNN)The Internet is a dangerous place for Mariam Veiszadeh right now. It's where death threats lurk and vile messages appear faster than they can be deleted.

But it's also a place where support is growing in a Twitter counter-campaign -- #IStandWithMariam -- to the urgings of a U.S.-based white supremacist website, the Daily Stormer, to "be as nasty, hurtful, hateful, offensive, insulting and 'vilifying' as you possibly can."

And they have been. "Leave now before we behead your mother and bury you all with pigs..." said one tweet from an account, which has since been suspended. Many of the messages include extremely offensive hashtags.

Veiszadeh, an Australian lawyer and founder of the Islamophobia Register, which tracks instances of abuse against Muslims, knows exactly why she's being targeted.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/asia/australia-muslim-twitter-campaign/?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion&iref=obnetwork

[ismnotwasm]

1. God people can be such shits.

People may wonder about hashtag effectiveness, but at the very least, it calls attention to these horrid behaviors.