When your job requires you to be in the public eye, you place yourself in the position of possibly becoming a target of severe online harassment. This could be in the form of bigoted, violent e-mails and social media posts. As an employee sometimes it is hard to distinguish whether these are legitimate threats that should be taken seriously, or if they are mere words that shouldn’t be a concern. With the real world of social media harassment and trolling, Bloomberg brings up the question of how—and whether—employers can look out for workers when the threats to employee safety are virtual.

Each week, Bloomberg’s podcast, Game Plan with hosts Rebecca Greenfield and Francesca Levy takes a closer look at the way we live our lives at work. When your job requires you to be placed in front of the camera, or writing public articles, or asks you to put your opinion on display, it tends to bring out the haters, and that can cause you to be trolled online. Greenfield and Levy interviewed Lauren Duca, a freelance writer for outlets including Teen Vogue to get her stance and personal experiences on the situation. Duca has said that she will not “opt out” although she has been strongly harassed by trolls due to her writing. She has made her voice on twitter heard which has been bad and good. In fact, it has even allowed her receive career changing opportunities due to the way that she was presenting herself on the social media outlet. Because of this, Duca has decided that she will not let the internet trolls win. She feels that the reason that they are trying to bring her down and scare her away from social media is to simply silence her, and she will not stand it. She thinks that it is important to speak out on this issue with employers and with her readers in order for there to be a change in the internet and with trollers.