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SecularMotion

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Fri Dec 4, 2015, 09:29 AM Dec 2015

#EndViolenceAgainstWomen: Secret Facebook group names men it says troll women online

Members of a secret Facebook group are tweeting out names of more than 150 men who trolled Clementine Ford — with comments including "go to the bathroom and kill yourself" and "bitches like you are the reason why some men are prone to violence" — after a male Meriton employee was fired for calling her a "slut" online.

The hashtag #EndViolenceAgainstWomen and screenshots of the abuse would also be included.

Within 20 minutes of its launch this morning the hashtag was trending at number one in Australia.

Sydney author and columnist Kerri Sackville is leading the charge against the men she has labelled trolls, saying she is sick of seeing women, particularly those in the media, maliciously threatened with rape and murder online.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-04/secret-facebook-group-to-name-men-who-troll-women/6997652
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