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Watch Ashley Judd's Powerful Call to Action on Online Abuse
“Online misogyny is a global gender rights tragedy and it is imperative that it ends. Girls and women’s voices are constrained in ways that are personally, professionally and economically damaging.”
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What the Random Rape Threat Generator Tells Us About Online Misogyny
Rape threats and other sexualized vitriol online feel extremely personal. These are messages that often go into explicit detail about which parts of our bodies will be violated with which instruments. They give the impression that the senders know us, that they are aware of our particular weak spots and of what to say to […]
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Women Writers Have Always Been Targeted for Anti-Semitic Hatred
Why it is only now that media is paying serious attention to anti-semitic harassment targeted at journalists?
Last week, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) issued a report detailing the rise in anti-Se...
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June 07, 2016 | Anil Dash |
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The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse
This article is reprinted with permission from the author.
1. False: You can’t fix abusive behavior online.
Yes, you can. Most small communities on the web don’t have major problems with abuse, b...
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Political Violence is Directly Linked to Online Harassment
In May 2012, just before the anniversary of the ruling of the Constitutional Court that legalized abortion in Colombia in 2006, I was working as a communications officer in the offices of the NGO Wome...
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Understanding The Difference Between Generic Harassment and GenderTrolling
In the eighth century BCE, Telemachus, Penelope’s son, told his mother:
Mother, go back up into your quarters, and take up your own work, the loom and the distaff … speech will be the business...
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Why Naming Online Harassment Accurately Matters
The issue of online abuse is finally being taken seriously. In the past year, the subject has been discussed before the U.S. Congress, at the U.N., on the nightly news, and with surprising empathy and...
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Social Norms, Not Tech, Fuel Abuse
September 8th
There is a man in my living room saying that feminists on a university campus “should be shot to death and remaining survivors tied to a tree with their throats slit with a dull knife.”...
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10 Must-Read Books About Online Harassment and Free Speech
Interested in what experts think online harassment, as a socio-technical phenomenon, is all about? We've compiled a list of some of the best books, covering free speech, legal issues, social realities...