With the country highly polarized along partisan lines and the nation’s capital bracing for more unrest leading up to next week’s inauguration, a new Pew Research Center report casts light on the dark side of the web.
“Women who have been the target of online harassment also report finding their most recent harassment experiences to be more upsetting than their male counterparts,” Emily Vogels, a Pew Research Center research associate who led the new report, said in a Q&A. “Partisan antipathy has been growing for years,” Vogels said. “Americans increasingly say they find they have less in common politically with people with whom they disagree, and they see political discussions online as less respectful, less civil and angrier than political discussions in other places.”
Politics were not the sole perceived motivator. Other reasons cited by targets of online harassment included their gender , race or ethnicity , religion and sexual orientation , all of which marked increases from a 2017 Pew survey. Women who were harassed online were far more likely than men to say they’d been harassed due to their gender, and harassment targets who were Black or Hispanic were much more likely than white targets to say they’d been harassed for their race or ethnicity.
Increasing shares of adults say they have experienced “more severe” types of online harassment such as stalking, sexual harassment and physical threats , as well as multiple harassing behaviors .
You could just... you know.... close the tab on your browser.... problem solved
Why aren’t these online social media platforms that allow harassment suspended or penalized?
When you lay yourself out there for the world, boom ! Hate to even imagine the minds out there !
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