Re:Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did ab...
by mercurial on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @09:12AM
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> Young men are entrapped by criminal gangs into sending them nude photographs, which are then used to blackmail those young men.
But that's just a business model (granted, it doesn't make any difference to the victim). Misogynists threaten for free.
> Arseholes are arseholes because they're arseholes, not because they have a mental illness that causes them to be an arsehole.
My working hypothesis is that well-adjusted people don't spend their free time sending rape/death threats over the Internet.
Sexual violence online appears to be mostly aimed at women, and mostly from men. But it's not hard to find examples of men receiving those threats or women making threats of sexual violence. This is especially true for non-hetero-normative men.
It's a hard problem. Well funded companies full of smart people have tackled it and failed (youtube comments).
Just for clarity: the experience of women online is likely to be pretty miserable. Many people, of both sexes, experience hatred.
PS: I hate it when people ascribe bigoted opinions to mental illness. That excuses the behaviour whilst also stigmatising mental illhealth. Arseholes are arseholes because they're arseholes, not because they have a mental illness that causes them to be an arsehole.