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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Paperback)
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Paperback)
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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.
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