One security expert familiar with the threats facing politicians said this is increasingly common. For starters, police need to take more seriously that online threats can pose real-life risks. Too often such online threats brushed off as not serious and thus never investigated, even when they contain actual threats of physical violence. “It’s more important than ever for political leaders — on left and the right — to resist the temptation to profit from political polarization,” Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary—Nose Hill) wrote on Twitter. We do deserve better from our politicians — and for our politicians.

Source: thestar August 31, 2022 00:33 UTC