"1. Bullying is not okay. Period.
2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to
physically or verbally assault people.
3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to
bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.”
~ Jim C. Hines
Jim C. Hines is on twitter as @jimchines.
His most excellent blog can be found
at http://www.jimchines.com/blog/
An excellent article on cyber-harassment written by him:
http://www.jimchines.com/2014/01/online-harassment/
Other articles of note:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/01/10/lets-just-call-it-talking/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/let-s-be-real-online-
harassment-isn-t-virtual-for-women
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-
arent-welcome-internet-72170/
Experiencing abusive behavior from others online?
Received threats due to stuff posted online?
Or, want to be part of the solution instead of the problem?
http://www.haltabuse.org/
Being fauxfended on the other hand is not the same thing at all. If you tell me that I am a big meanie poopy head because I happen to not agree with you, I can shrug that off easily enough.
If you accuse me of being stupid or racist or an anti-feminist or full of false ego or something, I can blow those comments off also.
A good solid definition can be found in The Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fauxfended
Here are some articles and things that talk about people who were fauxfended:
http://thegraph.com/2012/09/personalities-vs-facts/
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/01/04/HuffPo-No-Apology-For-Pearl-Harbor-Insult-Is-Perfect-Response
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2013/01/08/class-act-katherine-webb-says-musburger-not-creepy-for-gushing-about-her-on-natl-tv/
http://kmgarcia2000.blogspot.com/2012/09/blaming-victims.html
What no one should blow off are threats such as "I'm going to rape you, kill you, or otherwise ef you up." That sort of thing ought to require the attention of the nearest law enforcement agency. [And hopefully, the nearest law enforcement agency will be better informed than the one here is and more equipped to skillfully handle a complaint of cyber-bullying than the one 'round here is].
radical sapphoq says: Some people use cyber-bullying as a convenient argument for using one's wallet name on the internet. I've seen people on
People are people whether using their legal names on the internet or not.
Those who are in the public eye tend to use their names online. The rest of us don't. Some of the rest of us have had problems with people stalking us [either online or in 'real' life F2F] or threatening us. Some of us may be hiding from a past domestic violence situation or other troublesome history and thus we cannot safely enjoy the internet using our wallet info. Some of us prefer that our bosses and our elderly relatives not be able to find us on the internet. Some of us value our privacy and refuse to give out our real names and locations. Some of us have more than one of the above listed reasons for a decision to use socks or pseudonyms online. Some of us may have solid reasons that I have not listed here.
I am against laws that require us to use our wallet information online and against laws that would assign each of us some sort of internet 'number' that a government can use to trace back to us. Period. The dark net has its uses. Hopefully, an alter-net will become a reality for those of us who refuse to succumb to the line of thinking that starts with the dreaded words "It's for your own good that we are...".
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