Cops must have power to unmask sick online sex trolls
Give cops power to unmask sex trolls
SICKENING online sexual trolling is the scourge of the modern world.
Millions of women have been targeted by fiends and their lives blighted.
High-profile celebrities are victims too and stars like Emily Atack have endured horrendous abuse for far too long.
Today she bravely reveals shocking details about the perverts who bombard her daily with depraved internet images.
Some of those who send her abuse are married with kids.
But that doesn’t stop them trying to wreck a young woman’s life.
Disgracefully, the police are often helpless to step in because tech giants still deny them the vital data they need to track down these creeps.
The Government’s new Online Safety Bill must protect women and hold the tech companies to account.
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It is bad enough that celebrities are subjected to this mental cruelty.
But what about vulnerable girls who are too terrified to fight back?
As Tory MP Siobhan Baillie says: “If there is one thing that is the troll’s best friend it is anonymity.’’
This overdue legislation must shine a light into this depraved world and punish tech titans who turn a blind eye to harmful content.
Crucially, it must give the police powers to unmask the trolls making women’s lives a living hell.
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Labour's odious idiot
PROPAGANDA spewing out of the Kremlin to justify Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine is bad enough.
But it is sickening when Putin’s hogwash is parroted by an official candidate in this country’s May local elections.
Labour’s Ziad Alsayed, who is standing for the Vale of Glamorgan council, used Twitter to denounce Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky as a “fascist”.
And he has shockingly echoed the Kremlin’s disinformation over Russian war crimes.
But the Jeremy Corbyn fan is no stranger to siding with tyrants.
He previously urged Syrian beast Bashar al-Assad to “defeat all the agents of America”.
The Labour candidate has even stabbed his own party leader Sir Keir Starmer in the back, tweeting last year “he’s disgraceful”.
Labour must immediately kick this odious crackpot out of the party, and not just for treachery.
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There can be no place in British politics for anyone who wilfully denies the horrors of Russia’s evil war.
Sir Keir must show he means business by ridding his ranks of Putin’s useful idiots.