Britain's Channel 4 highlights Twitter abuse in ad campaign
by Rob Beschizza from on (#3YCB2)
Channel 4 in the UK:
We stand up for diversity and inclusion. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees. One of the dark sides of this is online abuse. To highlight this disturbing trend, we've partnered with some advertisers to show examples of real abuse against real people in their ads. It may shock you.Here are the ads. If the embed doesn't show, click the link above.https://twitter.com/Channel4/status/1038158715101298694T.S. Eliot, as dissatisfied by life's pettiness as he was satisfied by his own conservative fatalism, ended his poem The Hollow Men with the famous lines "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper." He later regretted it. People who survived bombings told him they heard nothing at all.