"While the legal treatment of online harassment differs from country to country, such incidents point to a growing and broader awareness among the public and law enforcement of taking online threats seriously, said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.”
“What these cases are helping us understand is the behavior itself is illegal,” Citron said. “So often, 10 years ago, the response was, ‘It’s the Wild West. Get over yourself. Ignore it.’ … We’ve come to understand these network tools are not in other places; it’s not just one’s and zero’s. It’s not any other life. It’s your real life, it’s terrifying, and it can get terrorizing.”"
- Date Published:06/22/2016
- Original Publication:The Washington Post