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It was a good experience to attend the #WireDialogues today, the powerful medium to communicate in today's world is digital platform and one should speak, express disagreement on wrong doings of people in power else our silence wil consider as our agreement.
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What is your advice to young women whose parents are afraid of them being on social media because of the trolling?
@khanumarfa: Social media is a public space. It has to be made safe for women. The answer is to have more and more women active on social media.
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"The Law cannot be effective in checking all kinds of ills. Ee have to look for other kinds of remedies," says Nitya Ramakrishnan.
"I disagree with Nitya. There is probably a need to revisit India's free speech jurisprudence," responds @VC_NALSAR
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Audience Question: Will trolling have an impact on elections?
@rohini_sgh: Trolling is meant to intimidate journalists, so that they don't do critical stories. So the answer is yes.
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"The trolling of Muslim journalists who are outspoken in their criticism of communal policies is also part of the right-wing's political project."
~ @khanumarfa
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"While law can be a double edged sword, we need to consider the chilling effect trolling has on free speech," says @VC_NALSAR.
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"Rajdeep, Ravish and Abhisar get trolled. Cheerleaders don't get threats."
@rohini_sgh
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Abuse if it crosses a certain threshold can become a criminal offence but it is not wise to try and criminalise speech if it does not, because the law may then become an instrument for the curtailment of free speech.
~Nitya Ramakrishnan
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"Every platform is a double edged sword, it can be used and abused. Today abuse has become a part of political discourse and social media reflects this."
~Nitya Ramakrishnan
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"Trolls want me to be answerable for what Babar did 500 years ago but they don't want to be answerable for what Narendra Modi has done."
~ @khanumarfa
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"There was a case against me. Lawyers were reluctant to take it up because they come from the same place as the trolls do."
~ @Hindu_vs
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"Those few days were hell for me. I blocked people but for about a month my family faced a lot of stress. Couldn't sleep at night."
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"I was given all kinds of threats. "Do you want to be another Gauri Lankesh?"
@Hindu_vs on the vicious abuse she received on social media.
Follow #WireDialogues now discussing media and social media in the age of intolerance.
"I am a journalist but the threats against me were because of my cartoons which were shared only on social media."
@Hindu_vs
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"There is a whole culture of fear that is being instilled--in journalists, in readers, in donors. If you are a woman, it just makes the struggle that much harder."
~ @rohini_sgh
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"There are threats which are made, online and offline, just because someone thinks you are "antinational".
There is no greater patriotic act than questioning your government."
~ @rohini_sgh
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Keep up with the #WireDialogues now in Hyderabad by tracking the hashtag.
A critical conversation taking place on panel to discuss how media and social media amplifies hate in the age of intolerance.
@khanumarfa @rohini_sgh "But my character is constantly attacked. The block button on Twitter is a great friend."
@rohini_sgh
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@khanumarfa "I don't face half the attacks @khanumarfa does because in her case the attacks are only because she is a Muslim woman."
@rohini_sgh
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