“When comedian Kate Smurthwaite appeared on the Today program to back up Yvette Cooper’s campaign, she urged that the police set up a special squad to monitor Twitter and punish sexist trolls accordingly. But when feminists demand that the police arrest and even imprison trolls to create an online safe space for women, it is they who become the authoritarian silencers of others. They are legitimizing, in effect, ‘thought crime’.”
