"The Canadian teen’s crimes fit a pattern, said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of the 2014 book, “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.” The victims are primarily young women, who are stalked online with threats of rape and sexual humiliation, with the intention of silencing them by forcing them offline, Citron said.
All of that can be accomplished by someone behind a computer thousands of miles away.
“We underestimate how powerful these network tools can be,” Citron said. They “can be abused in ways that really affect the way people live their lives.”"