Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

Danielle Keats Citron

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• At ProPublica, read about Citron’s concerns with efforts by some American leftists in the “antifa” anti-fascist movement to out white supremacists online via doxxing
• On WNYC’s The Takeaway, listen to Professor Citron discuss GamerGate and the problematic state of online hate crime law with software developer and CEO Brianna Wu
• On WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show, listen to Citron discuss the fading distinction between “real” and online life
• Listen to Citron’s conversation with WAMU’s Diane Rehm about how women, specifically, are victimized by online harassment
• Read Citron’s argument in Time that online abuse is a real and damaging civil rights violation that should have real consequences for the perpetrators
• Read a lengthy Jezebel feature on the lackluster response by police to reports of online threats, and what Citron believes should be done
• Read at The Huffington Post about the Federal Trade Commission’s unprecedented actions, in January 2015, against one revenge porn website
• Listen to an interview with Citron on WYPR’s Midday with Dan Rodricks
• Read Citron’s contribution to a New York Times “Room for Debate” forum, “Should Facebook Do More to Monitor Violent Expressions?”
• At Slate, read an excerpt from Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and, on their podcast The Gist, listen to Citron discuss online versus offline threats
• On MSNBC’s The Cycle, watch Citron discuss the hacked release of emails by top Sony Pictures executives, and how to prevent future privacy invasions
• Review Gawker’s Q&A event in which Citron took public questions about online harassment issues
• Read interviews with Citron at Vox and Salon
• At the Atlantic, read an overview about what the law currently can and can’t do to rein in online harassment
• At Wired, get Citron’s take on the newly-announced Facebook feature, “Rooms”
• In the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, read about a Pew Research study that showed significant differences in the types and degree of harassment experienced online by men as opposed to women
• Read a brief excerpt from Hate Crimes in Cyberspace at New Scientist
• Read reports at The Atlantic and The Nation on the growing prevalence of online harassment
• In Time and at CBS News, read Citron’s response to “gamergate,” in which online threats of violence forced video game critic Anita Sarkeesian to cancel a public appearance
• At Newsweek, read an excerpt from Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and an investigation into the current state of legislation, in the U.S. and E.U., regarding cyberstalking, trolling, and other forms of online harassment
• Listen to an interview with Citron on KPBS’s Midday Edition
• At Cosmopolitan, read Citron’s response to the hacked celebrity nude photos scandal; at Elle, her advice regarding “revenge porn”; and at Forbes, her open letter to actress (and victim) Jennifer Lawrence
• Read Citron’s contribution to a New York Times “Room for Debate” forum, “The War against Online Trolls”
• In Forbes, read about Citron’s work and whether Internet hate crimes are “the price we pay for being online”
• At Slate, read Citron’s call for Facebook to deal more seriously with reports of abuse
• At the Guardian and Forbes, read about Citron’s take on Elonis v. United States, which will determine whether threats made on social media are protected by free speech
• In Citron’s essays at CNN Opinion, Slate, and the Guardian, read about the increasing popularity of and murky legal situation surrounding “revenge porn”—the malicious online publication of compromising photos
• Read Citron’s Forbes.com posts on privacy, civil rights, and automated systems

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