"In the battle of Internet mobs vs. the law, the Internet mobs have won"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/02/17/in-the-battle-of-internet-mobs-vs-the-law-the-internet-mobs-have-won/ But as the date for Gjoni's Feb. 24 arraignment hearing drew closer, Quinn found herself wavering. The court case had made her ex something of an online celebrity, a role he gleefully embraced, and the hate mob had only grown bolder. "Is there any way to back out?" Quinn emailed assistant District Attorney Mary Nguyen on Jan. 15. "He did another post yesterday and now stuff like this is popping up. . . . " She attached a screenshot from the Reddit topic thread "GGFreeForAll": "If Eron goes to jail," the post reads, "I will hunt Zoe Quinn down and rape her." Quinn wasn't necessarily scared by this faceless Reddit troll -- the statement is typical of her inbox and Twitter "@"-replies these days. But to Quinn, it confirmed a fear voiced by other victims of cyberharassment before her: that the legal system couldn't, or wouldn't, ever really protect her from the Internet hordes. - - - = = = = Internet Political Trolls Collection Project (USA 2016): http://vortex.com/trolls = = = = --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
