TY - BOOK AU - Citron,Danielle Keats TI - Hate crimes in cyberspace SN - 9780674368293 U1 - 364.150285 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, London PB - Harvard University Press KW - Cyberbullying KW - Hate crimes KW - Computer crimes KW - Cyberstalking N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Digital hate -- 2. How the Internet's virtues fuel its vices -- 3. The problem of social attitude -- 4. Civil right movements, past and present -- 5. What law can and should do no -- 6. Updating the law: the harassers -- 7. Legal reform for site operators and employers -- 8. Don't break the Internet and other free speech challenges -- 9. Silicon Valley, parents and schools N2 - Most Internet users are familiar with trolling aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site s comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious, often terrifying, online abuse. In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. A refutation of those who claim that these attacks are legal, or at least impossible to stop, it reveals the serious emotional, professional, and financial harms incurred by victims ER -