Harassment does not change with the medium
Jul. 9th, 2007 10:12 amI am horrified, shocked and exceptionally angry when ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
barmaidblog had posted the link to this article on her blog. The article from Washington Post, found here, and it talks of horrifying threats and stalking of prominent female bloggers. Internet may still be perceived as something not quite serious, but the increasing number of worrying behavior has emerged, whilst the law is still lagging behind with a belief that stalking and death threats over the Internet are nothing serious.
A woman, blogging about new software and programming is receiving death threats and what the police officials do? They laugh it off. What is serious is the increase of the wide-spread and unchecked emerging trend of threatening women online. The complete disrespect and hate hidden by an online ID is becoming more and more of a common sight on the Internet.
It makes me so furiously angry that essentially those, who are insecure and emotionally immature will hide and blame women for their mistakes, in many cases becoming stalkers, in this case armed with a graphic application. The availability of information on the Internet allows someone even with little technical skill, but a lot of times to track the more prominent female netizens. Many of these losers specialize, worse, take pride in harassing and scaring with macabre violent threats.Many use the most horrific and despicable crime of all - rape. My first response is to track these cowards and simply throw them into jail for the remainder of their natural life with no access to the Internet or any other forms of communication.
These men are cowards and losers, and the worst of it is? They remain unpunished, first starting out as trolls, the 'accepted' losers of the Internet society, graduating slowly from a form of a badly-written social satire and the need to be a center of any attention, until their bigotry takes control and they can no longer hide it behind the cheerful emoticons and the phrase: "It's just a joke".
In conclusion, all I can say is that I know that my hastily constructed rant will not stop a bigot with an Internet connection and a blogging account. I just wish that something can be done about it. Not just an awareness campaign, but actual implementation of rules to cut down the filth of human society, who believe that by entering the cyberworld, you are given carte blanche to unleash their darkest and most perverted wishes on the rest of the Internet community.
barmaidblog had posted the link to this article on her blog. The article from Washington Post, found here, and it talks of horrifying threats and stalking of prominent female bloggers. Internet may still be perceived as something not quite serious, but the increasing number of worrying behavior has emerged, whilst the law is still lagging behind with a belief that stalking and death threats over the Internet are nothing serious. A woman, blogging about new software and programming is receiving death threats and what the police officials do? They laugh it off. What is serious is the increase of the wide-spread and unchecked emerging trend of threatening women online. The complete disrespect and hate hidden by an online ID is becoming more and more of a common sight on the Internet.
It makes me so furiously angry that essentially those, who are insecure and emotionally immature will hide and blame women for their mistakes, in many cases becoming stalkers, in this case armed with a graphic application. The availability of information on the Internet allows someone even with little technical skill, but a lot of times to track the more prominent female netizens. Many of these losers specialize, worse, take pride in harassing and scaring with macabre violent threats.Many use the most horrific and despicable crime of all - rape. My first response is to track these cowards and simply throw them into jail for the remainder of their natural life with no access to the Internet or any other forms of communication.
These men are cowards and losers, and the worst of it is? They remain unpunished, first starting out as trolls, the 'accepted' losers of the Internet society, graduating slowly from a form of a badly-written social satire and the need to be a center of any attention, until their bigotry takes control and they can no longer hide it behind the cheerful emoticons and the phrase: "It's just a joke".
In conclusion, all I can say is that I know that my hastily constructed rant will not stop a bigot with an Internet connection and a blogging account. I just wish that something can be done about it. Not just an awareness campaign, but actual implementation of rules to cut down the filth of human society, who believe that by entering the cyberworld, you are given carte blanche to unleash their darkest and most perverted wishes on the rest of the Internet community.
