Social media can be liberating, but it can also be hell. Ask television veteran Rajdeep Sardesai, who was forced to disable his Twitter account last week because of what he calls “a concerted campaign of lies and abuse on a daily basis”. Sardesai’s absence from the social network spells victory for the digital mobs that have been trolling him over the past year or so. This is a serious development to do with the anonymous army of trolls who have become active in the last two years. They even have a label—Cyber Hindus. They forced another respected TV journalist, Ravish Kumar, to abandon social media. Political differences are the natural order in democracies, as are journalists questioning policies and individuals. Social media, because of its anonymity, can do away with debate and argument and leave the field open for what is nothing more than cyber-terrorism.