Tech | April 03, 2008 | 1 comment

women face abuse from anonymous commenters on the web

source: http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/violetblue/

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It's frightening how comfortable (mostly male) commenters are with leaving hateful, abusive comments about women on the web. Violet Blue weighs in in a recent column for the SF Chronicle.
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1 comment // women face abuse from anonymous commenters on the web

  • rabidlemur
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    • I think of this as the "ring of gyges" effect, people are in fact made "invisible" on the internet and thus do not have to take responsibility for their actions, they can always create a new identity to escape their past actions.

    • 4 years ago
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