Prevent and issue consequences for threatening behaviour towards women online.

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

I ask the government that these types of messages need to have consequences which should be discussed further. I would like actions such as deleting their social media accounts, fining them and exposing their names. Quite clearly existing ‘laws’ against this are ineffective. It needs to change.

Examples of such behaviour is easy to find on social media. Within 24 hours of ‘The Guardian’ releasing a social media post about 97% of women in the UK being sexually harassed, comments such as these were written by men… “as they deserve”, “Damn, I thought we got them all where that 3% hiding”, “almost there 3% to go boys”. How do we tolerate such behaviour to circulate on social media and what does this say to the future generation of young, vulnerable girls. There has to be a change now.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like to happen. We understand that you would like to prevent threatening online behaviour towards women, but it is unclear what precise action you would like the Government to take.

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Timeline

15 Mar 2021	Petition opened for signatures
22 Mar 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 22 Mar 2021

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