Criado Perez started a petition to ask Bank of England to consider including a woman on the notes, and to remember to include women in future re-designs.

That's not much.

For that she was subjected to months long campaigns across all her social media accounts, extending to her AFK addresses, with severe threats of sexual violence.

One man was sending 50 messages an hour over 12 hours across multiple accounts.

It's disappointing that some people are defending those who make death threats. It's common over a keyboard, but AFK a death threat is serious business.

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Document...

> 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.

> 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.

> 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.

And about blocking:

> The messages were posted on a number of different sites, and continued after being blocked and or warned