Taking Trolls To Court -- Carrie Goldberg And Internet Misogyny

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Senator Kemala Harris, along with Carrie Goldberg, has actively engaged Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Bing and Yahoo to adopt policies against revenge porn.

Companies have started providing online forms that allow victims to request that content be deleted without having to assert copyright first.

Other info useful to me are quick summaries of copyright, de-indexing and how revenge-porn sites are also used for identity theft, extortion and hacking.

Over the next four years we can't let an Internet culture like this expand.

In the movement to combat online harassment, Goldberg is more of a pragmatist than a theorist. But Mary Anne Franks, of the University of Miami, and Danielle Citron, of the University of Maryland, have been publishing articles in law reviews arguing that extreme forms of cyber harassment undermine equal opportunity. Citron’s 2014 book, “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” contends that, because such behavior disproportionately affects women and minorities—damaging their ability to express themselves in public, their employment prospects, and their sense of personal safety—the legal system must treat it as a violation of their civil rights.

She recommends criminalizing revenge porn, including online threats, in existing statutes against stalking and harassment, and making it easier for victims to sue under pseudonyms. Citron, who has been making such arguments for years, told me that tech companies and state legislators are increasingly embracing her perspective:

“What seemed crazy to them back in 2007, when I was arguing that this should be criminalized and was a civil-rights violation, all of a sudden became non-crazy. It went from ‘Oh, no, she’s breaking the Internet’ to ‘Danielle, she’s fine, she’s middle of the road.’ ” Citron thinks the companies have realized that consumers “have a taste for sexual privacy.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/the-attorney-fighting-revenge-porn