Activist and songwriter Billy Bragg explains why he thinks social media companies need be tougher on people who are abusive online. Listen to Radical with Amol Rajan on BBC Sounds

@JournalismSEEN @amolrajan @BBCSounds Translation: "I tried my damndest to shut women up, and it turns out, I can't do that on my own."

@amolrajan @BBCSounds Who gives a flying feck what that wizened old has been thinks about owt?

@amolrajan @BBCSounds What qualifies him to have his opinion on the national broadcaster?

@amolrajan @BBCSounds Perhaps if you’d asked him about the nature of his “activism”, you’d understand why he is on the receiving end of such abuse.

@amolrajan @BBCSounds Let me guess, is it because he thinks anyone who doesn't think like him is a Nazi?

@amolrajan @BBCSounds Does this include his abuse of women who advocate for their rights? He’s a vile man. Those in glass houses.

@amolrajan @BBCSounds He's been incredibly abusive to women over his men's rights activism. He's also a major disinformation node on the same topic. Is he saying that HE should be banned, or that the people who accurately call him a lying misogynist twat should be banned?

@amolrajan @BBCSounds He is very abusive to women online.

@amolrajan @BBCSounds Billy Bragg is one of the most abusive/hypocritical Males towards Females on social media. In fact, towards anyone that doesn't agree with him. Not using swear words doesn't mean someone isn't abusive. He uses coercive abusive demanding language to shut people down all the time!

@amolrajan @BBCSounds Translation: Women won't accept my coercive abusive demands to allow my fellow Males in Dresses the privilege to violate their sex based rights. Their simple no is unacceptable to me as I don't respect Women, so want them thrown off social media to shut them up instead! Us: NO!