The public doesn't in fact act on cue to the words that they read online.

Andrew Doyle: "The major problem that we face at the moment is that there is a new ideological movement whose core belief is that language shapes our perception of reality and therefore you need to curb language that can cause offence. And the idea is that words and violence are effectively therefore the same thing...there is an assumption those vile things incite violence, lead to violence, that words and violence are the same. That assumption has been tested over many decades of research, it's called media effects theory. We know that the public doesn't in fact act on cue to the words that they read online. It's simply not true, there's no evidence for it..."