Hate crimes in cyberspace
By: Danielle Keats Citron
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780674368293
Subjects: Cyberbullying; Computer crimes; Cyberstalking; Hate crimes
Description: The author examines the controversies surrounding cyber-harassment, arguing that it should be considered a matter for civil rights law and that social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it.  --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Digital hate; title: How the Internet's virtues fuel its vices; title: The problem of social attitudes; title: Civil rights movements, past and present; title: What law can and should do now; title: Updating the law: the harassers; title: Legal reform for site operators and employers; title: "Don't break the Internet" and other free speech challenges; title: Silicon valley, parents, and schools.