How wise of Millie Bobby Brown to spurn Twitter trolls — theguardian.com

In another “well-done-everyone” triumph for the internet, 14-year-old Millie Bobby Brown has deleted her Twitter account. The Stranger Things star has been the subject of a long-running meme, #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown, which paired her photographs with deliberately wild, incongruous and untrue stories about her having racist or homophobic encounters with fans. After months at the forefront of the Repeal the Eighth campaign, the writer and actor Tara Flynn has spoken about her decision to take a deserved break from Twitter, pointing out that the usual response of “rise above it” or “don’t let them win” increasingly seems inadequate. “That doesn’t really help the person taking the abuse, because the onus is now on you to not only receive the abuse, but to be better,” she told Irish TV’s The Six O’Clock Show. “If you’re being stoned in the village square, get out of the village square. Or at least put up an umbrella.”

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