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"Danielle Citron, a legal scholar and a recipient this year of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for her work fighting online harassment, also has a suggestion for Facebook. Read more about She was called the n-word and given instructions to slit her wrists. What did Facebook do?
"“The problem with broad and vague definitions is that it’s subject to including things like political speech and dissent, because one person’s view of what’s demeaning to a group could be another person’s view of political speech,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of the book “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.”" Read more about Online hate is spreading, and Internet platforms can’t stop it
""It's deeply unsurprising to see a cyber mob descend. There’s a very quick snowballing that happens, where it’s maybe one or two people, then all of a sudden people almost get permission from other people doing it," Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, tells VICE. "It seems normal, and the mob moves to pretty strong extremes. Read more about Ariana Grande, Mac Miller, and Why We Blame Women for Male Substance Abuse
"The most recent report from StatsCan shows that over the last five years, nearly one in five people between the ages 15 and 29 say they have experienced a form of online harassment. And while no one is completely immune from being targeted online, the web is not an equal playing field—especially for women of colour, says Shaheen Shariff, a professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Education and an expert on cyberbullying. Read more about I Was Harassed for My Interracial Relationship—So I Tracked Down My Troll
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, who studies online harassment, said there's a disconnect between the outside perception of Twitter and harassment and what's happening internally. Citron has been working closely with Twitter's trust and safety team on issues of online harassment for more than two years.
"I'm not a cynic about [the ad]," she told CNN. "It's reflective of who the safety team is and I'm encouraged by it." Read more about Twitter's tribute to women rings hollow for some targets of abuse
"Danielle Citron, law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, says Enthoven’s experience lines up with research on both abuse aimed at call-center workers and on online misogyny and the harassment of women. The combination of user anonymity—which creates a lack of accountability for one’s actions—and the distance created by screens heightens the conditions for abuse, Citron says. Read more about This Startup’s Test Shows How Harassment Targets Women Online
"Twitter's renewed focus on harassment is a "completely different mindset" from several years ago, said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who studies hate on the internet. Read more about Twitter says it's making progress battling abusive behavior
"When considering whether words constitute a true threat versus protected speech, “the threat has to be credible and the person has to intend to make the victim fear imminent physical harm,’’ said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor and author of a book on online harassment. Read more about Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back , Bitch’
"US laws around hate on the internet date back to the earliest chat rooms and bulletin boards. By the '90s, they'd begun to address electronic harassment. But the laws were narrow and generally addressed a method, say harassment over the phone, rather than a broad range of intimidating behavior, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of the book "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace." And they aren't used often, she says. Read more about Trolling victim takes neo-Nazi website to court
"According to Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and a leader in the fight against online harassment and revenge porn, there need to be repercussions for harmful online behaviour, just as there are consequences for the offline equivalent.
"It's true that we are in the early stages of learning about the harm that can result from online behaviour, but we should view what happens online and off the same way." Read more about Youth is no defence when it comes to shameful online posts
