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Lily Allen trolled and abused on Twitter over her baby son's death

She’s temporarily quit over “new levels” of abuse.

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SINGER LILY ALLEN has temporarily handed over control of her Twitter account after she was subjected to “the most disgusting, sexist, misogynistic, racist shit”.

The row stemmed from tweets Allen sent in which she said she replaced the words ‘immigrant’ or ‘Muslim’ with ‘pensioner’ in order to make a point about prejudice.

The tweets, interpreted by some as a bona fide attack on UK pensioners, led to a torrent of abuse culminating in some truly awful exchanges about the death of Allen’s baby son in 2010.

Allen handed over control of her Twitter account to ‘Dennis’ yesterday evening, citing “new levels” of trolling and abuse.

She has promised to return to her account today.

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Written by Emer McLysaght and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Jackson Bollovks
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:04 PM

    Twitter, a social glory hole for complete clowns

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    Mute Jamie Lyons
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:25 PM

    @Jackson Bollovks: totally agree, it is an open sewer which is best avoided.

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    Mute James Xenophon
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    Feb 26th 2017, 3:03 PM

    @Jackson Bollovks: Don’t knock glory holes until you’ve tried one.

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    Mute Bobby Phelan
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    Feb 26th 2017, 4:53 PM

    Why doesn’t she just block these people its not the Internets fault.

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    Mute Nein Kampf
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    Feb 26th 2017, 5:04 PM

    They have multiple accounts. She has to read all the hate to know who you block.

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    Mute Austin Rock
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    Feb 26th 2017, 7:59 PM

    @Nein Kampf: so why bother? Why would any celebrity engage these people at all?

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    Mute Cian
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    Feb 26th 2017, 1:49 PM

    Twitter can be a cesspit at times. Best to ignore it

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    Mute OpenBorders
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    Feb 26th 2017, 6:13 PM

    @Fake Avast: It’s interesting to see that a lot of the accounts mocking Allen over her miscarriage are EDL, Alt-Right accounts, such a sick and twisted bunch.

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    Mute Eileen Down
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    Feb 26th 2017, 7:47 PM

    Every post u post mentions alt right!! Thing your alt wrong lad….

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    Mute Eileen Down
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    Feb 26th 2017, 7:48 PM

    Think…

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    Mute Shane Corry
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    Feb 26th 2017, 1:51 PM

    The best action is just to ignore it, it can be hard of course but putting spotlight on the trolls and especially getting them media attention just makes more people join in and the posts become worse. Either ignore them or report them (Twitter has actually gotten good with this lately, if the tweet has broken their rules the account is usually suspended within a couple of days).

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    Mute Stephen Coveney
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    Feb 26th 2017, 6:29 PM

    You’re condoning these messages?

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    Mute Joe
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    Feb 26th 2017, 1:53 PM

    She decides to insult and berate people who don’t accept her Ivory Tower opinions but can’t take the response. She started the tirade.

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    Mute Michael Hennessy
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:01 PM

    No Joe,her only mistake here was thinking the people who got offended by the point she was making would have the mental capacity to see the nuance or the context of that point.

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    Mute Jimmyjoe Wallace
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:12 PM

    Michael it appears there are some on here similarly mentally challenged

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    Mute Joe
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:42 PM

    @Michael Hennessy:

    She and her I’ll have been slagging off EU leavers and those that want to control immigration for a while now, from her privileged position but she wants to be treated with kid gloves.

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    Mute Joe
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:42 PM

    @Joe:

    Ilk not I’ll

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    Mute Michael Hennessy
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    Feb 26th 2017, 3:25 PM

    Just read that back to yourself Joe. Not wanting to be taunted about the death of your child = wanting to be treated with kid gloves? Even in the post Brexit/Trump world that’s a f##k#d up position to take.The lack of awareness in a lot of people is staggering.People going around calling everybody snowflakes,get so offended by somebody’s differing views that they think it’s alright to use their child’s death against them.They’re usually the people who spend all their time going on about democracy and free speech while having no idea what those things actually mean.

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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:25 PM

    Seems it’s ok for her to abuse people though.

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    Mute Tony Daly
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:28 PM

    @DPentony: who did she abuse? How did she abuse them? When did she abuse them? Does this justify those who would abuse an emotionally vulnerable woman?

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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:35 PM

    @Tony Daly I didn’t say it justified those comment about her baby though. I am saying I have seen her slurring people on Twitter, she is very fond of dishing out abuse and name calling. If she can give it but not take it, maybe she shouldn’t be on Twitter.

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:52 PM

    Tony .. I don’t agree with what they are doing but she’s not an emotional vulnerable woman ..

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Feb 26th 2017, 3:59 PM

    Dpentony .. it goes to another level when it get personal. .

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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    Feb 26th 2017, 1:57 PM

    Wow just shows you the character of the men on here who say she should just put up with the abuse or ignore it.

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    Mute gjpb
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:04 PM

    @Deborah Behan: bringing gender into it again I see

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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:07 PM

    Deborah, every comment from you seems to have an anti-men tone to it. Plenty of men on here have expressed their disgust at the comments, why do you put all men here in the same basket? You probably have a father/brother/son/nephew. Do you treat them all with the same disdain?

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    Mute Max Johnson Powers
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:07 PM

    Oh piss off Deborah. Not all the men on here are giving abuse.

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    Mute Mr Snuffleupagus
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:30 PM

    @Deborah Behan: Free speech outweighs all other concerns. Lots of things are said people dislike, but that’s the price of free speech. I’ll give you an example: I think you’re a whiny pain in the hole.

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Feb 26th 2017, 3:02 PM

    Just press the block button and ignore…

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    Feb 26th 2017, 6:50 PM

    @Tweety McTweeter: She is just part of lesbianic hate cult.

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    Feb 26th 2017, 9:39 PM

    She had a point: most of the males commenting are angry old white boomers upset at their loss of privilege.

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    Mute Mike
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    Feb 26th 2017, 6:07 PM

    Lilly Allen does have a problem with pensioners. To defend her position which is basically indefensible she brings up in graphic terms her deceased child. This was low, a low only matched and then exceeded by the Twitter trolls who took her introduction of the subject as a signal that the subject was fair game.

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    Mute Stephen Hynes
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:12 PM

    Don’t be on it

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    Mute Mike
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    Feb 26th 2017, 6:03 PM

    In other news that won’t be reported on thejournal, Lilly Allen was attempting to DOX a twitter user by passing out her photo and asking people to identify the user. Shameful carry on.

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    Mute eastsmer #IRExit
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    Feb 26th 2017, 4:13 PM

    Who is LILY ALLEN ?
    Never heard of her, I presume this is just publicity for her ?
    If you have a problem with Twitter then delete your account.

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    Mute GOH
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    Feb 26th 2017, 1:58 PM

    Just a bunch of cowardly, lonely weak men hurling abuse on twitter hiding behind fake accounts. They should ban fake troll accounts. At least have the balls to stand over what you say.

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    Mute James Guinan
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:25 PM

    ‘Fake trolls’ so there is a such thing of legitimate trolls?

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    Mute GOH
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:36 PM

    I mean grown men that hide behind fake names and pictures. Then scream about lefty snowflakes! Yet they won’t
    Show their faces? Tragic! Sad! Huge
    Problem!

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    Mute Jamie Lyons
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:39 PM

    “Goh” is your real name then?

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    Mute James Guinan
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:40 PM

    I don’t think showing your face is an issue, but being transparent in who you are is where you draw the line on issues where ypu should be taken seriously or not. People trying to claim anonymity so they can abuse others is an abuse of the notion of ideas over the person. Trolls should be ignored regardless of their anonymity.

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    Mute gjpb
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:49 PM

    @GOH: I’m sure some of the people hurling abuse are female

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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:52 PM

    Gary O Hanlon. I couldn’t use the twitter handle cos it was already taken. Probably should’ve used realgaryohanlon or something like that.

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    Mute GOH
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:52 PM

    By no means is it exclusive to men.

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    Mute Liam Byrne
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:03 PM

    Poor woman. Easy for ordinary people on the street to ignore. But the abuse celebrities get is potentially infinitesimally greater. Even tough she probably knew the individual was a troll, it still brings up feelings that are in the instances extremely painful.

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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:38 PM

    @Liam Byrne: Nothing poor about Lily Allen, with her £20 million fortune.

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    Mute Emmet O'Keeffe
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:49 PM

    Things escalate quickly on Twitter. On all social media actually. Youtube is an absolute cesspit. People actually watch murder and vicious assaults on Youtube.
    The real problem here is the abnegation of responsibility by social media sites themselves regards ethical standards.
    Twitter storms are huge revenue generators.
    Profit before people.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:04 PM

    There are a lot of evil people out there who only hide who they are in order to fit in but Twitter does allow them to be who they are and it is scary?

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:17 PM

    @Alois Irlmaier:

    How, in anyone’s right mind, can mean words said on an online social forum be considered “scary”?

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    Mute Tony Daly
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:22 PM

    @Jason Culligan: it is if you know the Tweeter has guns.

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    Mute Gabrielle
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:42 PM

    Well said Jason….lily is a prolific Twitter megaphone mouthpiece who is well adept at using this platform to voice her opinions and to pillory those who have a differing opinion to hers by name calling and and finger pointing with these morally charged,virtue signalling buzzwords ………she knew the exact reaction that she would get when she mentioned her misfortunate miscarriage on such a platform and makes a meal of it when someone throws a few nasty remarks…running to her safespace while contriving a media circus around it , all part of a bigger picture to craic down on free speech. Sorry for your loss lily….but please….please…..please……just F*#k off for good this time

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    Feb 26th 2017, 11:13 PM

    @Jason Culligan: All nutcases are scary…

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    Feb 26th 2017, 11:13 PM

    @Susan Moran: Never heard of stalkers?

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    Feb 26th 2017, 11:15 PM

    @Gabrielle: Free speech is not the same as free insults?

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    Mute Simeon
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:23 PM

    I don’t understand why anyone in the public eye with subject themselves to Twitter. It’s a freak show and until everyone is obliged to prove and register a real identity it will remain so.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:47 PM

    Often they have to use social media, it depends on your career. I was at a great talk by various writers. One wasn’t keen on any social media at all, and the last thing she wanted was to spend her time on a blog and have to deal with all the snide comments. But her publisher was urging them all to take part – like book signings, they won’t sell many books unless they get out there. So she opted for Twitter in the end for brevity, because it’s limited to 140 characters.

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    Mute Damocles
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    Feb 26th 2017, 5:46 PM

    So she was trying to do some sort of ironic satire thing and it went horribly wrong. Big surprise there.

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    Mute Tony Daly
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:25 PM

    Social media can be used for good, for bad, for the inane and as a platform for malice.

    Twitter has a particular propensity for mobbing and trolling abuse of persons who are emotionally vulnerable. Mercy and understanding are lacking on Twitter.

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    Mute Seán Domhnall O'Sullivan
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    Feb 26th 2017, 10:00 PM

    Shes dreadfully misinformed and apologises regularly on behalf of all Brits re migrants. which is not her place..but thats vile. These folks dont seem to have moral compasses.

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    Mute James Guinan
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    Feb 26th 2017, 2:19 PM

    Awful people doing awful things is not newsworthy. It is expected. Not a defence of these comments before the braindead dummies on this website descend claiming as such.

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    Mute Eileen Down
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    Feb 26th 2017, 7:46 PM

    Lily is hot….but the poor thing…. Meh…

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