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The Next Civil Rights Issue: Abuse of Women on the Internet
Curated:
08/01/2014 from
www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/?src=longreads
my notes ( ? )
Great longread. Some excerpts:
1) It's a serious problem:
"these online offenses are enough to make a woman want to click away from Twitter, shut her laptop, and power down her phone. Sometimes, we do withdraw: Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, “entirely because of women’s fall off in participation.”
But for many women, steering clear of the Internet isn’t an option. When people say you should be raped and killed for years on end, it takes a toll on your soul,”
2) It's not treated seriously:
Internet harassment is routinely dismissed as “harmless locker-room talk,” perpetrators as “juvenile pranksters,” and victims as “overly sensitive complainers.”
3) It's complicated
"... in some cases, the impulse to protect our privacy can interfere with the law’s ability to protect us when we’re harassed. Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation came out against an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act....
... why are engineers in California getting to decide what constitutes harassment for people all around the world?”
- The Next Civil Rights Issue: Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
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