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The trolls are winning. GamerGate case will not go to trial.
"While most states have passed legislation to prevent cyber harassment, Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, says the law oft…
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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…
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Feminists at Mary Washington say they were threatened on Yik Yak
"Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor and the author of“Hate Crimes in Cyberspace”, said Yik Yak’s anonymity combined with geolocation c…
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Rehtaeh Parsons, Dalhousie and the wait for justice in Nova Scotia
"Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill University and author of Sexting and Cyberbullying: Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids, sees…
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Yik Yak Is Testing a Photo Feature. What Could Go Wrong?
"“We have increasingly seen issues involving compromising sexually explicit images that are taken without people’s permission,” says Danielle Citron, autho…
Yik Yak & Social Media Trends
Visit WYPR.org to listen to the podcast. Social media is full of hurtful, racist and sometimes threatening speech. We take a look at the hyper-localized and an…
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When Shaheen Shariff asked a group of under-18-year-olds whether a teenage girl has the right to object to her boyfriend sharing a nude photo of her with his fr…
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Quebec human rights commission denounces public misogyny
Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill University whose research focuses on legal issues related to cyber bullying, said the FHRITP phenomenon is par…
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Police warn Welsh pupils over 'sexting'
"ANALYSIS - Prof Shaheen Shariff, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Author of Sexting and Cyberbullying - Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids…
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U.S. Government Takes Unprecedented Action Against Revenge Porn
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, took a sligh…