About the book
Sarah Jeong, a journalist with legal training, starts from the idea that the internet has always been mostly garbage, which technology and human curation have kept manageable in the case of spam. Harassment, aimed especially at women and people of color, is the newest kind. Written after the campaigns against Caroline Criado Perez and those of Gamergate, the book stresses the physical danger of doxing. From a legal and policy angle, Jeong shows that the DMCA, the Communications Decency Act and similar laws grew out of copyright law and focus on removing content after it is posted, and she suggests handling harassment more like spam. Forbes first published it as an e-book in 2015.
Project Include founder Bethanye McKinney Blount called it a strong overview of the history and effects of systemic online abuse, especially against women.
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Bethanye McKinney Blount (Founder/Project Include)
It's a great overview of the history and impact of systemic abuse — especially of women — online.
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