The Double Life of Online Harassment: A Reckoning for the Digital Age The appointment of Wes Streeting as Defence Secretary has shed light on an alarming phenomenon: the extraordinary volume of online homophobia that persists, even in this supposedly enlightened era.
While his appointment received little attention from mainstream media, the digital sphere revealed a starkly different reaction – one that is both a symptom and a catalyst for the toxic underbelly of our online discourse.
Streeting's revelation of encountering an "unbelievable volume" of online abuse should not come as a surprise.