JK Rowling discusses online threats aimed at her, says she enjoys 'pub argument aspect' of social media

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"Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling on Saturday discussed the dangers of social media, weeks after receiving a death threat when she tweeted support to Salman Rushdie following his stabbing attack earlier this month.  "I try to behave online as I would like others to behave," the author told British host Graham Norton on his radio show when he asked how online rhetoric could be de-escalated. "I've never threatened anyone. "I certainly wouldn't want anyone to go to their houses or anything like that." Police began investigating earlier this month when a Twitter user named Meer Asif Aziz allegedly tweeted "Don’t worry you are next" to Rowling after she called Rushdie’s stabbing attack on a stage in New York "horrifying news" on Twitter.

Rowling says she regularly receives threats online.  "The Satanic Verses" author remains hospitalized two weeks after the attack.

JK Rowling received death threats on Twitter, which are now being investigated by police, after voicing her support for  Salman Rushdie earlier this month. (Dia Dipasupil) Rowling went on to tell Norton that she enjoys the "pub argument aspect" of social media. "That can be a fun thing to do." But she admitted she now has a "love-hate relationship" with it and said she once went about a year off Twitter and finally returned only in connection to a children’s book she was writing.