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Xyla was threatened and Twitter still stayed quiet

Dear friends around the world, Every single day, I receive some form of abuse on Social Media. Whether it is on Facebook or on Twitter, I am threatened, sworn at, told to go to hell and someone even say they want me dead or to kill me. They say all of this because of my personal choice to practise Dorje Shugden which they do not agree with. So they send me abusive messages every single day. The strange thing is, most of the time the Social Media Platforms will not do anything about this. I always suspected it was a universal callousness towards protecting their users’ safety, and my suspicions were confirmed when one of my students forwarded the article below to me. I was shocked but not surprised to read about what Ms Xyla Foxlin has gone through. She became the victim of unprovoked, violent and vulgar threats, and when she contacted Twitter and reported it to them, she was met with a wall of silence. Out of all the social media platforms, I have always known Twitter to be the most unresponsive to reports. How can anyone harass, abuse and threaten someone else and get away with it? It seems Twitter is okay for someone to threaten another person’s physical being […]



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