It's no surprise that online trolling is a big issue for many public figures and Ashley
Judd is one of them she's actually planning on going after those trollers or trolls trollers
after they went after her because of her comments on a game now she was watching a basketball
game college basketball game and she had something kind of nasty to say about Arkansas she actually
tweeted to them during the said the following dirty play can kiss my team's free throw making
ass bloodied three players so far now as you guys know when it comes to issues like politics
or sports people lose their shit if you say something that they disagree with so of course
the Twitter trolls started rolling in and they said some pretty terrible things to her
well she was not pleased about it so she started retweeting some of the more abusing tweets
and I'll give you a few examples of that one person said what the hell do you even do you
stuck up cunt what are you famous for again I mean there should have been a question mark
but no big deal we all got what he mean right I think was the smallest problem in his tweet
so couple of things here already for those of you who don't know Ashley Judd is from
Kentucky she loves the Wildcats she often talks about them and so that's why she's passionate
about that game yeah now that doesn't mean you get to call her the c-word right but they
feel like it's the internet it doesn't really matter I can say anything I want it can be
the most terrible thing in the world and I can say it and now here she is saying no that's
not really true and I'm going to fight back so let me give you one more example and then
I'll tell you exactly how she's planning on fighting back another person has tweeted to
her go suck Cal's two inch dick ye bitch whore OK alright I mean it's interesting because
these are harsh tweets but I'm desensitized to them so I'm like yeah of course you're
going to get tweets like that you know it's like what you expect online now she's no pleased
with it and some of the tweets she believes are even more abusive and threatening and
so as a result she went on the today show and she talked about them in greater detail
and what she plans to do to combat them take a look everyone needs to take personal responsibly
sure for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture
on social media to persist and by the way I'm pressing charges so right there she says
that she's planning on forwarding all of these abusive tweets to her lawyers and to prosecutors
and actually go after these people now I want to hear what you have to say about this cause
I think it's an interesting tactic and I think it's also a bad one that's interesting so
first of all I sometimes do the first part of what she did retweet some of the angry
tweets towards me and believe I've gotten says as bad but and much much worse than the
two tweets that we just read I love to retweet the ironic ones like oh you your bigoted against
Jews you god damn Muslim I think you might want to check yourself alright and I'm giving
a very mild example there and all the fat ass terrorist you know you're the worst and
yadda yadda and I'm coming for you right and not like hey kidding around political I'm
coming for you but I know where you live right so if she's pressing charges on these tweets
I wouldn't go in that direction of course you're going to invite a lot more trolls there's
no question about that but if there's actionable you know tweets where they said had specific
threats then I view that as a different category so if they're tweets that are inciting violence
so there are issues with people who share personal information of other individuals
in an attempt to either intimidate them or incite violence it's like hey look I got this
person's phone number I have this person's address I know where they live I'm now going
to make this public through twitter or some other public forum and everybody go out and
get this person that's inciting violence and so if it's possible to track those people
down and prosecute I think that that makes sense so we have no idea how we're going to
track these people down so I'm curious to see how this goes that said Ashley Judd has
resources that people like us don't have so I'm curious to see how this plays out because
if I wanted to prosecute it would be much more difficult I don't have the public clout
or the financial resources necessary to go after these people she does yeah I'm amazing
by the idea that I tell the Today show hey there's been some mean tweets about me they're
like oh come on let's talk about it OK do you plan on pressing charges so yes she certainly
has clout in that sense in the mainstream press OK look I think I've become numb to
it and I kind of like that she's fighting back whether we agree with the specifics or
not because I've had so many threats of violence against me I hope you die I'm going to kill
you etc etc that I've I don't really view it as much of a big deal I mean and the insults
they roll off my back so quickly I mean thousands of insults more than you possible count there's
some chance if you include YouTube I might be up a million insults like significant insults
that a day maybe yeah but anyway I would only take action if it was OK specific about here's
how I'm going to do this kind of violence to you right right but but we shouldn't used
it and somebody should fight back and say hey listen man once you go on the internet
that doesn't mean that you get to let go of your humanity and act like an animal and spook
people who are not used to it right and so I commend her for fighting back and I don't
know if pressing charges is the right way to do it but let's see what becomes of it
at least someone started the fight or started to fight back so there's an interesting trend
now among specifically female celebrities a lot of them have decided to either deactivate
their twitter accounts or not look at it all together they don't look at their mentions
so Iggy Azalea is one of them Lena Dunham has decided that she's no longer going to
you know look at these mentions I deleted twitter I'm trying to created a safer space
for myself emotionally right and I totally feel her like at first with me I'm just going
to share my personal opinion on it with YouTube I mean a long time ago years I was like I'm
never reading these comments again right and I never if I ever do decide to read them I
just lose faith in humanity and I get discouraged with my job it's now a virus that has bleed
into twitter as well I don't check my mentions on twitter I actually deleted twitter off
my phone I don't check it all wow I'm done done with twitter wow it's that simple I actually
despise twitter so now here's the problem OK I don't agree with that but I check it
fairly regularly I enjoy that that platform the problem is I really want to hear from
you guys right I do to in my case it's really important for me to keep track of your reaction
to the show positive negative it doesn't matter right in fact the negative is more relevant
if we're done something wrong we've misstated a fact or you think we're headed in the wrong
direction as a matter of principle those things matter to me and we get about 1,600 on average
on our YouTube videos right so I can't read all 1,600 but I like to browse through and
I like to see what people are saying same thing for twitter right and the trolls ruin
it for everybody else they're like that idiot guy aggressively goes up to woman and says
stupid shit until women get scared of all guy and shut off and start putting up defense
mechanisms and that's what trolls are en masse for the internet they ruin it for everybody
by being so aggressive and so outrageous that people put up walls understandable so and
then you've ruined the communication that the internet is great for