Danielle Keats Citron and Brianna Wu: "Hate Crimes In Cyberspace"
b'Danielle Keats Citron is Lois K. Macht Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.\\n\\nBrianna Wu is Head of Development at Giant Spacekat and a well-known public speaker on issues affecting women in tech.\\n\\nMost Internet users are familiar with trolling\\u2014aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site\\u2019s 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.\\n\\nPersistent 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\\u2019s \\u201crevenge porn\\u201d were not enough, harassing posts that make their way onto social media sites often feed on one another, turning lone instigators into cyber-mobs.\\n\\nHate 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, Danielle Keats Citron contends, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it.'