Stanford CIS

After GamerGate, Congress Is Grappling With Online Abuse

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"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, told BuzzFeed News that while the norm-changing force of the law has done much to dismantle sexism, misogyny, and sexual harassment, that same force should be applied to networked spaces. “With sexually humiliating harassment and threats, people say, ‘Oh, just go offline,’” she said. “But we need to educate law enforcement, because a threat is a threat, whether it’s in person or in your inbox or on a third-party site. We’ve got to make that cultural shift to see it as a real problem and to bring law to bear.”"

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