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Author Citron, Danielle Keats, 1968-

Title Hate crimes in cyberspace / Danielle Keats Citron.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.15 CITRON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.15 CIT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.1502 C49    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.15 CITRON    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  364.1502 CITRON    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  364.168 C581H    Check Shelf
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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  364.1502 CITRON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.15 CI    Check Shelf
Description 343 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-328) and index.
Contents Digital hate -- How the Internet's virtues fuel its vices -- The problem of social attitudes -- Civil rights movements, past and present -- What law can and should do now -- Updating the law: the harassers -- Legal reform for site operators and employers -- "Don't break the Internet" and other free speech challenges -- Silicon valley, parents, and schools.
Summary The author examines the controversies surrounding cyber-harassment, arguing that it should be considered a matter for civil rights law and that social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it. --Publisher information.
In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media, Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. She reveals the serious emotional, professional, and financial harms incurred by victims. Persistent online attacks disproportionately target women and frequently include detailed fantasies of rape as well as reputation-ruining lies and sexually explicit photographs.
"Most Internet users are familiar with trolling--aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site's comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious, often terrifying, online abuse. In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media, Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. A refutation of those who claim that these attacks are legal, or at least impossible to stop, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace reveals the serious emotional, professional, and financial harms incurred by victims. Persistent online attacks disproportionately target women and frequently include detailed fantasies of rape as well as reputation-ruining lies and sexually explicit photographs. And if dealing with a single attacker's "revenge porn" were not enough, harassing posts that make their way onto social media sites often feed on one another, turning lone instigators into cyber-mobs. Hate Crimes in Cyberspace rejects the view of the Internet as an anarchic Wild West, where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure all manner of verbal assault in the name of free speech protection, no matter how distasteful or abusive. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, Citron contends, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it."--Publisher's description.
Subject Cyberbullying.
Cyberstalking.
Hate crimes.
Computer crimes.
ISBN 9780674368293 (hbk.)
0674368290 (hbk.)
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