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Alleged Kidnapping Raises Questions About Online Harassment
""We often see people who torment domestic partners will torment them and terrorize them with any tool they have, and that is on and offline," Un…
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Feminist Jessica Valenti Quits Social Media After Rape Threat Against 5-Year-Old Daughter
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace who has spent several years interviewing Valenti ab…
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Man arrested after Twitter threats are made against U.S. senators
"“The accused in this case could (and may well) raise . . . First Amendment challenges” to the Twitter ban, Scott Shackelford, a professor of cybersecurity…
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Rape threats on a stranger’s Facebook photo could land a man in prison. Why that’s a big deal.
"While the legal treatment of online harassment differs from country to country, such incidents point to a growing and broader awareness among the public a…
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Victims Of Online Threats Say Perpetrators Aren't Being Caught
"The response Watson got is a little too common, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who has studied online harassment. Ci…