She was also the minister leading the charge on passing the Harmful Digital Communications Bill designed to stomp out such bullying behaviour. Tweets that were all factually wrong and for which Collins apologised. Another tweet suggested she was biased and another urged exposure of her for approaching the minister for help in Bradford's ex-partner's job application for the police. The former Justice Minister must have had a troll in her head, because she had tweeted that press gallery journalist Katie Bradford was a liar. It's an anonymous situation, it's a form of cyber bullying, I don't engage in that." The PM backed her: "My view is there's a lot of trolls and bottom-feeders on that and in the end they get in people's head. How did we react to all of the above? Mostly with a collective shrug.
In 2014 we watched the erosion of democratic rights by attack bloggers and the rise of executive power. A year when we felt the panoptic gaze of Five Eyes - "a system of secret, pervasive surveillance from which there is no refuge".Ī year when we understood our existence was just so much metadata. 2014 was the year our PM set new benchmarks for being economical with the truth.
It was a year of ta-dah! - Dirty Politics, the Moment of Truth. 2014: the year of hacks, text amnesia and tweets run amok.
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