Report them! Off with their heads!
The founder of parenting message board Mumsnet has hit back at a Labour MP who has threatened to report the website to the Metropolitan Police after users on the site slammed her reaction to the Brianna Ghey murder trial verdict.
Dawn Butler told critics to ‘get a life’ after they hit out at her suggestion that the trans teenager’s death at the hands of two teenagers in Cheshire earlier this year had been driven by ‘hate towards the trans community’ from within the government.
They sure do love that “hit back slammed hit out at hit hit hit” trick at the Daily Mail, which I suppose is not surprising. Dawn Butler talked nonsense and people at Mumsnet said it was nonsense. No one hit anyone.
The Brent Central MP’s post was then shared on Mumsnet, and she claimed this prompted an influx of messages from ‘nasty, vicious, inhumane’ people on X, formerly Twitter. The MP then said she would report the message board to the Met.
In a statement to MailOnline, Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts said the website allowed ‘legal discussion’, adding: ‘(This) sometimes means people will make comments that individuals don’t agree with or like.’
Well then they will have to be reported to the Met. What else is there to do?
In a statement to MailOnline, Mumsnet founder and CEO Justine Roberts said: ‘Our forum guidelines are pretty clear. We allow legal discussion, which sometimes means people will make comments that individuals don’t agree with or like. We specifically disallow hate speech and deliberately inflammatory posts and we have an active moderation team who respond, on average in under an hour, to complaints about posts.
‘It’s somewhat ironic that Ms Butler chose to post her attack on Mumsnet on X (formerly Twitter) which regularly hosts comments that wouldn’t last a moment on Mumsnet and where the moderation is light touch at best. We see this kind of double standard a lot and I’m beginning to wonder if it might be because Mumsnet is the only major platform dominated by women’s voices.’
‘Beginning to wonder’ – nice sarcasm.
