Vitriol control

By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Jul 2015, 01:00 BST
It seems that in his haste to reply to my letter and accusing me of prejudice, Ian Johnstone (Letters, 21 July) failed to read the article on page 13 in the same issue in which the sitting SNP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross has been quoted congratulating an online so-called cybernat troll on her comments and advised her that “I enjoy all your posts and your sense of humour”, that she “had a way with words” and to “keep it up”.

Comments have included pictures of No voters being hanged, and homophobic and derogatory sexual comments of political opponents.

At the recent general election an SNP candidate Neil Hay was uncovered as a so-called “cyber troll” making derogatory comments about pensioners and calling No voters “quislings”.