Online Harassment

The upper house of the national legislature in Japan passed a bill Monday that would punish people convicted of making online insults with up to one year in prison and fines of up to $2,231, Kyodo News reported.

A judge in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has ordered tech giant Google to hand over information linked to a blog critical of the far-left extremist group Antifa after allegations of cyberbullying.

A social media mob descended upon a British mother, “naming and shaming” her for missing the weekly ‘clap for carers’ event meant to show solidarity with National Health Service (NHS) workers during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

A new study by the Pew Research Center claims that men are more likely to experience harassment online than women.

Social media posts that embarrass or insult someone would be illegal under bills covering online harassment being pushed by Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin.

Lol, just kidding. Here are some pictures of the actual event. https://www.instagram.com/p/BC3t74OJW2w/?taken-by=omargee https://www.instagram.com/p/BC26Po3pW1d/?taken-by=omargee Serial online abuser Randi Harper, a particularly ironic supporter of the event, spent much of her time anxiously glancing at other people’s phones, looking for GamerGate-supporting spies.

Last week, Breitbart Tech reported on the suspension of a long-term editor at Wikipedia. The site’s arbitration committee accused him of harassment, but failed to produce any evidence of these potentially criminal charges, or give the editor a chance to challenge them.

Digital media festival South By Southwest (SXSW) has caved to media pressure following their decision to cave to online threats last week. Two panels were cancelled last week: one on gaming culture and integrity in games media, and another on “harassment

Digital media festival South By South West (SXSW) faced frenzied criticism from across the tech media this week after it cancelled two panels on gaming, with Vox Media and BuzzFeed promising to boycott the festival. Yet much of the outrage was confined to the cancellation of just one of the panels: the one that reinforced progressive narratives.

Following our report on Google Ideas’ bizarre decision to invite several online abusers to a discussion about preventing online abuse, the organisation’s employees have begun to distance themselves from some of the individuals mentioned in our article. Izzie Zahorian, a designer

It seems that Google Ideas, the Internet giant’s New York-based think-tank, isn’t very good at googling.

A high-profile gag order filed in the state of Massachusetts by Zoe Quinn, a controversial progressive games developer, against her ex-boyfriend Eron Gjoni, has been vacated. The case raised questions of how far the law can silence individuals on the grounds of

The creation of a community code of conduct has led to infighting among contributors to the FreeBSD project, an open source operating system, after concerns that controversial “anti-abuse” activist Randi Harper may have been involved in its creation.