{"id":65944,"date":"2015-03-17T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65944"},"modified":"2015-03-17T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:42:46","slug":"ashley-judd-to-press-charges-over-vulgar-tweets-during-kentucky-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65944","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Judd to press charges over vulgar tweets during Kentucky game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She sounds like the ADL and the SPLC and the SWC.<\/p>\n<p>What exact charges will she be pressing and how?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/sportsnow\/la-sp-sn-ashley-judd-ncaa-twitter-20150317-story.html\">REPORT<\/a>: Actress Ashley Judd said she&#8217;s pressing charges against the cyberbullies who explicitly attacked her on social media over a tweet she posted during the SEC championship game Sunday between Kentucky and Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture on social media to persist,&#8221; Judd said Monday on \u201cMSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts.\u201d &#8220;And by the way, I&#8217;m pressing charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I were in a more calm state of mind, I might have phrased [it] differently,&#8221; Judd told Roberts. &#8220;I might have said, &#8216;I feel really disappointed with what seems [like] ultra-aggressive play.&#8217; Instead, what I wrote [was], &#8216;I think Arkansas is playing dirty.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What followed, Judd said, was a slew of hateful comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The amount of gender violence that I experienced is absolutely extraordinary,&#8221; Judd said in an interview with Craig Melvin that aired Tuesday on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today.&#8221; &#8220;And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that&#8217;s directed at me on social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Melvin asked, &#8220;That many people?&#8221; She responded, &#8220;That many people, that explicit, that overt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judd also spoke out immediately against the attacks on Twitter, retweeting a particularly vile sample comment and tweeting, &#8220;When when I express a stout opinion during #MarchMadness I am &#8230; threatened with sexual violence. Not okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continued defending herself Monday on Twitter: &#8220;Example: I am mentally weak for not tolerating sodomy threats. &#8216;@AshleyJudd oversensitive liberals like are you that mentally weak?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Melvin, Judd &#8220;does not anticipate these cases are going to be prosecuted vigorously, but she does want to send a message.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She sounds like the ADL and the SPLC and the SWC. What exact charges will she be pressing and how? REPORT: Actress Ashley Judd said she&#8217;s pressing charges against the cyberbullies who explicitly attacked her on social media over a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65945,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65944\/revisions\/65945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}