{"id":139521,"date":"2018-06-11T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/mp-jess-phillips-in-web-plea-after-600-rape-threats\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:04:52","slug":"mp-jess-phillips-in-web-plea-after-600-rape-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/mp-jess-phillips-in-web-plea-after-600-rape-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Jess Phillips in web plea &#8216;after 600 rape threats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jess Phillips\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/0481\/production\/_100335110_p060hn7x.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  House of Commons<figcaption>Image caption                                      Jess Phillips has called for people&#039;s real identities to be revealed to social media providers                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">An MP who has been the victim of abuse by social media trolls has called for them to lose their anonymity online.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Yardley Labour MP Jess Phillips said in one night she received 600 rape threats and was threatened with violence and aggression every day.<\/p>\n<p>She said she wanted people to have to disclose their real identity to providers like Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>However, she said there were good reasons for whistleblowers to still appear anonymous to the public.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Midlands Live: Air show criticised for &#039;awful&#039; jams; Robbie Williams to perform at World Cup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival she said if you speak from a feminist perspective, which she &quot;very frequently&quot; does, &quot;you will suffer from a huge amount of internet trolling&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>She added she had &quot;stopped counting&quot; the number of abusive messages she had received.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  @jessphillips<figcaption>Image caption                                      On Monday the MP tweeted that her office had been vandalised for the second time in two years                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the weekend Security Minister Ben Wallace said digital IDs should be brought in to end online anonymity that permits bullying and grooming.<\/p>\n<p>At the G7 summit Prime Minister Theresa May called for tech giants to clamp down on &quot;vile&quot; attacks against women.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the government announced plans for new laws including a mandatory social media code of practice.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Phillips said police had issued harassment orders against two people for &quot;constantly emailing me with bile and abuse&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#039;t feel I am physically in any danger and I don&#039;t think my children are in any danger,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;However, where it does worry me, and I think we have to do something about, is when it affects our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I personally have come to the viewpoint that I don&#039;t think people should be allowed to be completely anonymous online anymore.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of London Tech Week, culture secretary Matt Hancock also expressed concerns regarding social media and admitted to the Guardian he does not let his own children use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright House of CommonsImage caption Jess Phillips has called for people&#039;s real identities to be revealed to social media providers An MP who has been the victim of abuse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}