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Racism and abuse: how online harasser finally got banned for attacking Leslie Jones

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At long last, Breitbart writer and professional harasser Milo Yiannopoulos has been permanently banned from Twitter, following yet another one of his organised hate campaigns, this time against Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones. 

Leslie found herself the target of a storm of Twitter harassment on Monday, as users flocked to her mentions to send her racist slurs, misogynistic insults, and disturbing images.

The mob finally got to her and she decided to leave Twitter, after calling on the site to take stronger action to protect their users from this kind of hate speech and abuse.

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