&gt; and if they aren&#x27;t - what kind of stuff are you spewing out that makes so many people waste their time getting angry with you?<p>The Bank of England phased out their £5 notes. English bank notes have portraits of famous people on them.  The old note had a woman, the new note had a man.  That meant that all English bank notes had portraits of men; there were no women on the notes.<p>Caroline Criado Perez the Bank of England to reconsider this decision, and asked for a woman to appear on at least one of the notes.<p>For that she was bombarded with messages. One man was sending about 50 an hour, for about 12 hours, across multiple accounts.<p>Other people sent fewer tweets, but those tweets were far more menacing.<p>Here&#x27;s what the judge said about 2 people who sent threats of rape and murder:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.judiciary.gov.uk&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;JCO&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;Judgments&#x2F;r-v-nimmo-and-sorley.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.judiciary.gov.uk&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;JCO&#x2F;Document...</a><p>&gt; Here there were a series of communications (not just a single one as referred to in the guideline) where extreme language was used and substantial fear was caused.<p>&gt; Indeed it is hard to imagine more extreme threats (death, rape, and worse [Sorley]) and rape [Nimmo]. The harm is, and (despite what is said on your behalf) must have been intended to be, very high.<p>&gt; The fact that they were anonymous heightened the fear. The victims had no way of knowing how dangerous the people making the threats were, whether they had just come out of prison, or how to recognise and avoid them if they came across them in public.<p>And about blocking:<p>&gt; The messages were posted on a number of different sites, and continued after being blocked and or warned