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Why did it take so long to ban revenge porn?
"“No one wanted to commit to anything,” said Citron. “There used to be a period of time where I would talk about this issue and people would say, ‘Stop bei…
Danielle Citron
Affiliate Scholar
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment (HBO)
Online harassment is a major problem, but it’s rarely prosecuted. If only we’d been warned about this in the early days of the internet. CIS Affiliate Scholar…
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Business roundup: Google will remove photos upon request
"Opponents of revenge porn cheered the decision. “We’ve been talking to Google for all these years,” said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of…
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Google to remove 'revenge porn' from search results
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, an expert in online harassment and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, applauded the move. The sear…
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Posting Hulk Hogan's sex tape isn't revenge porn, but is it legal?
""Seeing the video tape of someone having sex is very different from journalists writing about it," Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crim…
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No Matter What Reddit Does, It’s Going to Alienate People
"“There’s no accountability, and in an anything-goes environment, there are no social norms on how to slow down harassing speech,” says Danielle Citron, a…
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Hulk Hogan is fighting for the privacy of the world’s sex tapes
"Gawker could have told the story and described the video (as it did, in great detail, which you can still read, even though the video has been taken down…
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Why Online Harassment is Still Ruining Lives--And How We Can Stop It
""It implicitly suggests that threats online are no different [than threats made via other interstate communication methods]," Danielle Citron, a…
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Questions Remain After U.S. Supreme Court's Facebook Threat Decision
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, had a similar observation, saying that the court did send a c…
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Proving an Online Threat Is a Threat Just Got a Lot Tougher
"It’s a decision which, according to Danielle Citron, a professor of law at University of Maryland and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, upends…
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Threatened Online? Supreme Court Says Prosecutors Must Prove Intent
""The court doesn't answer the question, whether if you know there is a substantial likelihood you're scaring the living daylights out of some…
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Yik Yak gets criticized amid murder case, but it doesn't have to change
"Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, told Mashable that Yik Yak critics do have a lot to be angry about. "What troubles me…