First Click: Periscope's subhuman trolls
Periscope’s fun, unless you’re a woman.
“You look lovely”
“bitch ugly”
“Show us your tits”
“your face looks like vomit”
These are actual comments pulled from recent broadcasts whenever women, or even young girls, dared to put themselves in front of Periscope’s network of strangers. Go ahead, try for yourself: tune in to any global broadcast hosted by a Simone, Emma, or Andrea, for example, and you’ll eventually see the same. At just two weeks old, Periscope’s already mired in a frat culture throbbing with anonymous keyboard courage. Just like every other social network.
Fortunately, Twitter is moving fast to correct this — much faster than it ever responded to harassment on its eponymous social network. Periscope 1.0, released on…
Source:: The Verge
