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Hate crimes in cyberspace / Danielle Keats Citron.

by Citron, Danielle Keats, 1968-

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Harvard University Press, 2014.

364.150285 C581h

Computer crimes.

Social media -- Moral and ethical aspects.

9780674368293 (hc.)

0674368290 (hc.)

343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-328) and index.

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 to enhance the accountability of harassers -- Extending legal reform to site operators and employers -- "Don't break the Internet" and other free speech concerns -- Silicon valley, parents, and schools.

"The increasing use of networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious, often terrifying, online abuse, resulting in severe emotional distress to the victim, sometimes leading to suicide. 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, this book 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. Harassing posts on 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. Danielle Keats Citron is Lois K. Macht Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law"--Provided by publisher.

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