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41 Percent of Adults In the US Have Been Harassed Online, Says Pew Study (techcrunch.com)
According to a new Pew Research Center study, 41 percent of adults said they have experienced harassment online, and 66 percent of people said they've seen it happen to others. What's the most common form of online harassment? According to the study, it's offensive name-calling. TechCrunch reports: It's worth noting that while men are slightly more likely than women to be harassed online (44 percent versus 37 percent), women are more likely to be sexually harassed online. For example, 53 percent of women surveyed reported receiving explicit images they did not request. Unsurprisingly, social media is where people are most likely to experience online harassment, with 58 percent of those harassed saying the most recent incident happened on a social media platform. Also unsurprising is the fact that more than half of people harassed don't know the person harassing them. Pew also explored "emergent" forms of online harassment, like doxing (posting someone's personal information online without consent), trolling (intentionally trying to provoke or upset someone), hacking (illegally accessing someone's accounts) and swatting (when you call 911 for a fake emergency and have the police show up at that person's house). "While many Americans are not aware of these behaviors, they have all been used to escalate abuse online," the report states.
Have been harassed in real life.
got 'cha
But lol they've all had a million swirlies already
Help Help, I'm being oppressed!
Fuck all of you.
100% of the respondents need to learn to man the fuck up and get over it.
People who spell it harassed deserve harrassment.
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What's the most common form of online harassment? According to the study, it's offensive name-calling.
Name-calling is not mere "harassment": it's psychological violence, same as people (so-called "friends") not Liking a motivational image posted on Facebook while you never fail to Like theirs.
The FBI or DHS should get involved, we can't let society go down that path.
lucm, indeed.
have never been harassed online.
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100% of Slashdotters have been harassed online. And if you're reading Slashdot, and you haven't been harassed, you're a stupid piece of shit.
There. It's back at 100%.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Putting all these 'harassment' stories at the top is a conspiracy to distract us from the Russians
I'm on internet since 1998 roughly. I'm 32 now... so started pretty young. I also spend 10+ hours on the computer per day, since 2001), so one can say internet is pretty important thing in my life, more so to me than to these that got _harassed_ probably.
First thing, most people are just asking for it. They subconsciously dig themselves into these holes, like they are unknowingly addicted to drama. It's like ghost stories.. the only people that seem to see ghosts are those people that believe in ghosts.
Furthermore, "Cyber" bullying ? Seriously ? Bullying is if i slap the shit out of you, yell at you, and take your lunch money, and I REPEAT it every day. That's bullying.
Somebody wrote a nasty comment on your facebook ? Are you kidding me ? Maybe I have this attitude because I "grew up" on IRC in early 2000s where these "abuses" were actually just a normal day, and I seen real bullying in the same time at school, but anything that happens on internet is totally insignificant, it's bordering make-believe, especially if you connect to internet with that intent, and it's not that hard people. Why take internet and platforms on it such as social media so seriously ?
Maybe this is happening because people choose to upload their lives on retarded platforms like facebook, maybe not, either way... you have control over it all, so all you doing calling this bullying is marginalizing real bullying. There's only one life that matters, and it's called Real Life.
I'm sure there are hordes of geeks that will attack me for saying cyber is make believe.. but that's just uh... like, your opinion man.
And screw them too.
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I don't know what world people live in, but I have been harassed all my life. Long before we were online. If it's not neighborhood kids putting you down, it's the bullies, the fellow students, the teachers, all adults in your life and mainly your family.
Most people just grow a thick skin and move on, because there isn't much else you can do.
Be seeing you...
You harassed me.
That seems more than a bit over the top. Or are people really this easily made to feel uncomfortable these days? That would not be good at all.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Clutch your pearls! Harder!
I got trolled really bad on a BBS back in about 1990.
Saying "no", "you are wrong|irrational|delusional|ignorant|etc..." is not "harassment" but can be perceived as such by the recipient. If you receive some form of criticism and take it as harassment, perhaps you should check to see if the person criticizing is right!
When people say I'm ignorant, I ask for references so that I can be a better person and educate myself. When I am told my opinion is wrong, I ask for facts so that I can challenge my opinion. Sometimes I am irrational and delusional. That is all part of being a normal, breathing, thinking human who also has emotions.
But hey, keep promoting that victim culture. It's worked so well as a tool to educate the masses and make people accountable responsible members of society.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
... were busy harassing.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I wonder, are the following concepts included or not in the definition of 'harassed' regarding this poll?
1.) 'Triggered' - using the contemporary meaning
2.) 'Micro Aggression' - as in having been, as determined only by the recipient
3.) 'Called Out' - corrected on a point of objective fact
4.) Being treated fairly based on merit rather than as if everyone deserves a trophy for participation
These things are not harassment rained down on a victim. Rather, it is interacting with other people in the real world.
2+2=4 even if that reality triggers you. The fact that black people have more melanin in their skin than white people is true even if you call it a racist micro aggression for saying so - nature doesn't care. Who the hell cares anyway? Melanin content isn't relevant to living in daily society its just a biological sunscreen. It isn't sexist to point out that health care for women actually is more expensive on average than it is for men. It isn't sexist to point out that auto insurance is actually is more expensive on average for men than it is for women. These are facts. Sexism enters the debate when we talk about whether they should be or not and are matters of opinion. Effort vs. results. In some things, results matter more. No, you don't get a trophy for TRYING to land that beach at Normandy - you just get shot or blown up. No, you don't get a renewed contract as a financial advisor for TRYING to give good advice - you should get fired or demoted when your clients move to other advisors.
Nice try, but that's just a single insult, not harassment.
p.s. Your mother is a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
"We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I did Gran Torino (2008), even my associate said, "This is a really good script, but it's politically incorrect." And I said, "Good. Let me read it tonight." The next morning, I came in and I threw it on his desk and I said, "We're starting this immediately.”
- Clint Eastwood
if you're into that sort of thing? I'm asking for a friend.
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Seriously the world has full right to harass at least 41 of idiot US Americans for voting for him. I wonder it's not more. The fucking idiots deserve it.
They are all women too!
I'm not signing anything
41% of Americans play CS:GO. Also, an unconfirmed number of their mothers had relations with a 12 year old quick-scoping hack named Ana1mUn(h
41 percent of adults said they have experienced harassment online, and 66 percent of people said they've seen it happen to others.
Correction: it should read:
“41 percent of adults said they have experienced harassment online, and 59 percent of people said they’ve, huh, seen it happen to, hum, well you know, others...”
Well, I, for one, am appalled (appalled!) that Democrats post their views online.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
If you read everything online, than plz compare this as if you were reading everything offline too (and don't forget all those ads around you that make you believe you are unworthy, ugly, your dick is too short and have really nothing in value compared to everyone else around you, you idiot!)
Disagreement of vacuous, incorrect, and plain disengenuous "feminist" analyses of computer games is harassment!
I have a little problem
I was called a "newfag" on 4chan once. Been locking my doors and packing heat ever since. I think Gamergate broke into my house last night and soured my milk.
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So you're telling me that 59% of adults have not been online?
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Millions!
"Give someone a program, frustrate them for a day... Teach someone to program, frustrate them for a lifetime."
...and your grand parents have probably been needing to learn to defend themselves with guns, whereas I (roughly the same age as you) live in a country where I don't even see why the hell I would be needing any weapon.
(That's even if I live in one of the few western European nation where it isn't that complicated to legally obtain a gun and corresponding license).
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and why are people doing it online?
Don't most men have hair on their buttocks? That would make them hair-assed.
I care less. At this point, I don't care at all. I like to watch videos of women being slaughtered while I read Jezebel. It feels good to know that men control the world, no matter how many little cuntpuff screeds these cranky bitches post.
Men will fucking kill you IRL, and stuff your cunt limbs in a rusted drum.
Not a goddam thing you can do, except hyperventilate online, you stinking fuckpockets.
Someone with a butt fracture modded you down but you are absolutely right. Quoting Lauren Duca directly: "Friendly reminder that there's an uneven playing field and straight, white men are generally trash!" Parent deserves +5 informative.
Then the number should be closer to 100% of anyone who has posted anything online in a place where comments can be left. Certainly 100% if you include meatspace interaction.
When it comes to "being harassed online" I think of more dangerous harassment, including swatting, doxing, and otherwise taking the stream of trolling offline and into meatspace somehow. Name calling is the last resort of the weak mind precisely because grown-ups ought to be able to just ignore it without it troubling their psyche, it is therefore a futile gesture. That people really believe they are being harassed by this suggests we're doing something wrong.
... most anyone who posts in places like this has been harassed online at some point. Do you hear me, m*%^$^(#$&%^s?
Falling on ears that already agree.
The question is not whether this is right or wrong, obviously it is wrong and against the common interest, the question is WHY are people falling for this point of view and WHO is promoting it?
Several people have already talked about how this delicate attitude toward "bullying" and "harassment" is beginning in schools. Are you just going to assume this across-the-nation "zero tolerance" policy sprouted from popular demand, propelled by referendum? That would be quite amazing, considering that even at the local level almost nothing is ever decided by referendum.
Can I jump to the obvious conclusion now? Our schools have been taken over, top-down, using federal mechanisms.
By who and why?
Whose interest does it serve to have a nation of cowards that rely on authority to solve their problems? Whose interest does it serve to legally punish those who would take care of their own problems?
What we are seeing here is the plutocracy (corporate business and the government they own) trying to, at the least, feminize, or more likely downright extract the humanity from our population, turning us into animal slaves with human bodies. And the vast majority of the population are lapping it up brainlessly.
Obviously this seems to be a huge problem for our survival as rational, creative, spiritual, intelligent beings known as humans. Never before in history has so much abuse been taken from a state without revolt. We are anesthetized by our habits and addictions of diversion which are provided readily.
Those of us with the capacity to see this are going to NEED to stay angry, ignoring the soothsaying we are surrounded with coming from the media, relayed through the mouths of many of our brainless peers, we are going to need to organize, and we are going to need to take a big step beyond legislation, protest, strikes, etc., we are going to need to physically FIGHT back.
An Anti-Social Criminal Coward.
First of all, it's called out that "... but women are *sexually* harassed more".... ONLINE.
Yet another case of "okay it happens more to men BUT here's why it should matter (hint: The reason it should matter is because of the women).
Also, I've been online for just shy of 30 years. Nothing has changed except the PEOPLE on the internet have become bigger pussies.
Welcome to the internet.
"Harassed."
Wah someone was mean to me.
Damn. I made it 23 years on the internet without being harassed, and you ruined it :(
Don't worry on a conservative definition of 'harassment' multiple attacks are necessary. Phantomfive is a conservative, ergo his single attack upon you cannot constitute harassment. ;)
Now if an SJW like myself (who obviously uses a far looser definition of 'harassment') were to attack you it might be different. But as you know, we are all about Peace, Love & Brown Rice, so we would never treat you with anything but the most sincere kindness ... unless, of course, you are .. you know ... one of them conservatives. And even then we'd only be giving you "a taste of your own medicine," so that wouldn't be harassment either.