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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace Kindle Edition
Most Internet users are familiar with trolling—aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site’s comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious, often terrifying, online abuse. In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media, Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. A refutation of those who claim that these attacks are legal, or at least impossible to stop, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace reveals the serious emotional, professional, and financial harms incurred by victims.
Persistent online attacks disproportionately target women and frequently include detailed fantasies of rape as well as reputation-ruining lies and sexually explicit photographs. And if dealing with a single attacker’s “revenge porn” were not enough, harassing posts that make their way onto social media sites often feed on one another, turning lone instigators into cyber-mobs.
Hate Crimes in Cyberspace rejects the view of the Internet as an anarchic Wild West, where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure all manner of verbal assault in the name of free speech protection, no matter how distasteful or abusive. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, Citron contends, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it.
- ISBN-13978-0674659902
- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date22 Sept. 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- File size1245 KB
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace s main strength lies in its sustained and detailed exploration of the bizarrely convoluted, sustained and extremely hurtful nature of online abuse of individuals... She makes her case successfully for changing social perceptions and creating a far more effective legal response, particularly by utilising civil rights law. --Times Higher Education
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- ASIN : B00NEFS9YC
- Publisher : Harvard University Press (22 Sept. 2014)
- Language : English
- File size : 1245 KB
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 352 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0674368290
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,876,624 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Danielle Keats Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. A 2019 MacArthur Fellow, she serves as the Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative.
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I'm not going to re-iterate the terrible tales here, but for people that don't think the problems are serious, suffice it to say that people have died because of hate crimes on the net. Online bullying, work place harassment, defacement, DDoSsing and spreading of false information, including impersonation, and theft and publication of private identifying information are part of the problem - the threats sometimes move from the virtual to the real world, and when law enforcement fails to act, there can be very bad consequences.
The author argues that none of this is the least bit acceptable, nor do we need to accept it any more than nowadays we would accept sexual harassment in the workplace, or racial or religious abuse, or libel or slander in public or indeed private places. Education (at schools, in wider society, and of law enforcement about what laws actually apply now, and how to use cyberspace to get evidence) is crucial. In some cases, new legislation is needed, and perhaps, the right to bring cases anonymously (this is a subtle argument and worth reading carefully). Most importantly, the book makes it clear that there is absolutely no threat to the precious Free Speech that many falsely use to defend their abusive actions. There are clear exemptions for True Threats, Crime-Facilitating Speech, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress and plain old fashioned lies. Increasingly, we see new laws controlling non-consensual disclosure of nude images ("revenge porn"). Indeed, much of the abuse online is actually suppressing other free speech, much as continual interruption or shouting over someone in a discussion is not often a valid means of contribution.
The book is a very useful guide and should be read by educators, law enforcement officers and online service providers as a matter of urgency.
I'd argue personally that the laissez-faire attitude taken by some to these hate crimes amounts to incitement - and that while many of the sad individuals who carry out the online activities do not then extend their threats to the real world, acceptance of this form of online behaviour will act as a signal to more dangerous real world behaviours. As Whitney Phillips argues in the also excellent "This is why we can't have nice things", to some extent the bad online behaviour by individuals is itself influenced by the poisonous style of discourse in some mass media itself. We need to fix this from the grass roots up, and from the top down at the same time. This book is a great contribution to that process.
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