{"id":172662,"date":"2016-07-20T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T08:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=172662"},"modified":"2016-07-20T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T08:41:52","slug":"twitter-crackdown-after-ghostbusters-actress-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/172662-twitter-crackdown-after-ghostbusters-actress-harassment.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter crackdown after Ghostbusters actress harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will ban several user accounts after Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones became the target of abuse and harassment on the platform, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-twitter-abuse-idUSKCN1000C5?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart editor\u00a0Milo Yiannopoulos led the harassment campaign against Jones, and was among those banned.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u00a0shared several of the abusive messages she received before\u00a0announcing she would leave Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart. All this cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the shit I got today&#8230; wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0joins several prominent figures who have left the platform after being the target of abuse, including British comedian Stephen Fry.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/155288-stephen-fry-quits-twitter-because-the-room-had-started-to-smell.html\">Fry quit Twitter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0he said that Twitter had become a\u00a0&#8220;stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/171911-pokemon-go-is-bigger-than-twitter.html\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Go is bigger than Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/171539-twitter-increases-gif-file-size-limit.html\"><strong>Twitter increases GIF file size limit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/169069-twitter-buys-magic-pony-for-150-million.html\"><strong>Twitter buys Magic Pony for 0 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/168773-twitter-facebook-and-google-sued-for-terrorist-attacks.html\"><strong>Twitter, Facebook, and Google sued for terrorist attacks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/168427-twitter-makes-it-easy-to-block-users.html\"><strong>Twitter makes it easy to block users<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will permanently suspend several user accounts for abuse and harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,36051,38130,38128,405],"class_list":["post-172662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ghostbusters","tag-leslie-jones","tag-milo-yiannopoulos","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172716,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172662\/revisions\/172716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}