Ghostbusters Movie News and Updates: Leslie Jones Quits Twitter After Hateful Comments; What Did People Say About Her?
After experiencing several forms of abusive insults online, comedian and actress Leslie Jones quit Twitter "with tears and a heavy heart."
The Ghostbuster cast has been reported to be experiencing trolls, and racist comments in which she endured for several days. She had finally broke her silence on Monday night, while expressing her pain on the situation.
On that particular night, she started off tweeting how she sees some Twitter users as "disgusting." Jones then began retweeting and exposing tweets and users who had insulted and harassed her. "I don't know how to feel. I'm numb. Actually numb," she also said in one of her tweets.
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Ever since the release of the Ghostbusters trailer, hateful comments have been thrown against the movie. Even during its cinema launch last Friday, the movie had been receiving a lot of criticisms. A movie vocal minority fans have commented that "the sacred legacy of the original film is under threat," and that the jokes shown in the trailer didn't contain too much humor.
While the movie has been receiving negative feedbacks lately, it had also been noted as one of the most disliked movie preview on YouTube. Aside from that, the comedian Leslie Jones have been the center of the overwhelming racism jokes and insensitive remarks.
Based on her tweets, Jones had been called an ape, and had also been criticized by her physical features. And worse, a fake account was made under her name, and pretended to be her while tweeting statements about homophobic and racist slurs.
Jones had made an appeal to Twitter and also tweeted, "Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let spread like that."
Luckily, the social media platform had made something on the issue by responding "This type of abusive behavior is not permitted on Twitter, and we've taken action on many of the accounts reported to us by both Leslie and others."
Twitter also released a statement on Tuesday addressing the issue, saying, "People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others."
Regarding Jones' case, an article had also said that while Twitter had served as a means of freedom of expression, abusers had been taking an advantage to its usage, and taking this social site as a means of non-stop offenses and online bullying. Twitter should somehow change their response to harassment as immediate as possible to avoid another incident similar to what happened to Jones.
