Here, here: the Swedish online love army who take on the trolls
by Makana Eyre and Martin Goillandeau in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#470DF)
#Jagirhir (#Iamhere) aims to battle abuse in online threads and jumps to defend those on receiving end
When a young woman with rainbow hair and a reputation for hostility towards sexual predators won a Swedish lawyer of the year award late last year, the online reaction came in two waves.
The first was unpleasant, a torrent of bile from people who objected to Linni(C)a Claeson's looks, her feminist politics, her gender, her youth and her instagram account @assholesonline.
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