#endonlineharassment

[rajavomwaldesrand]

Subject: Request for Support Against Cyberstalking and Defamation

Dear Community,

I am reaching out to you because I have been stalked and repeatedly attacked by a person for over two years. This person has spread false and defamatory information about me and my blogs and continues to control and manipulate my interactions with my followers daily, despite being blocked. I do not know this person personally and do not speak their language. However, I am familiar with their aggressive and malicious patterns of behavior. Their actions appear to be a projection, lacking any foundation, and are harmful.

Despite multiple attempts to resolve the matter with them, they persisted in making unfounded accusations, blocked me, and publicly spread negative narratives about me, mentioning my blog names and making destructive attributions about "me as a person." Although I have reached out to the platform’s support team several times for assistance, no actions have been taken.

This person has posted harmful and unfounded content about me and their distorted view of me, severely damaging my reputation and online presence. Some blogs that followed me decided to block my account under the influence of the lies and manipulations being spread publicly. I deleted several blogs and created new ones, but the person quickly found me again and continued their harmful behavior.

To this day, it remains a mystery why I was chosen. I believe that no one should have to endure this kind of harassment – especially in a space that should foster creativity and self-expression. Therefore, I am asking for your help and support in bringing this issue to light.

If you have experienced something similar or believe that platforms should do more to protect users from such behavior, please share this post or leave a comment to raise awareness. Together, we can make a difference and push for better security measures on this platform.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Kind regards, @Ayimalyam alias Raja Vom Waldesrand

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W:10 Online Harassment and Social Media Governance

The content this week focussed on digital citizenship and conflict, specifically social media governance. The reading was an article called ‘#NoSnowFlakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture’ written by Craig Haslop, Fiona O’Rourke and Rosalynd Southern in 2021. The article addressed the term ‘Snowflake generation’, a term that is specifically focussed on young people and is “used to mock their perceived intolerance and over-sensitivity” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p. 1418). The article “challenged the discourse” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p.1418) and challenged this idea with findings from their study they did with university students in the UK. They found these students see online harassment as a ‘norm’ and it’s an everyday experience for them, where “most students are willing to put up with it, rather than take action and address it” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p.1418). The findings completely challenge the idea that these students are a ‘snowflake generation’ and that is demonstrated throughout the article, using collected “survey and interview data” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p.1418) from the selected group of University students. 

The article defines online harassment as “threats or other offensive unwanted behaviours targeted directly at others through new technology channels” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p. 1420), this can be shown through many different forms across social media platforms, “such as spreading malicious rumours, sending abusive direct messages and the non-consensual sharing of personal context, including sexual images” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p. 1420). Studies have shown that “women are more likely to be targets of gendered-based online harassment than men” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p. 1420) and a “significant number of studies have indicated that online harassment can have a range of emotional, psychological and physiological effects on those subjected to these practices” (Haslop, O’Rourke, Southern, 2021, p. 1420). 

The “normalisation of misogyny and abuse online both reflects and reinforces systemic inequalities” (Suzor et al, 2019, p. 84) and there is a responsibility that comes with governing these global social media platforms. “Addressing gender-based violence online will require the intervention of the technology companies that govern the commercial internet to prevent and combat abuse across networks and services” (Suzor et al, 2019, p. 84), these companies should be ensuring that “they do not reproduce gendered inequality” (Suzor et al, 2019, p. 84) on their platforms.  

References: 

Haslop, C., O’Rourke, F., & Southern, R. (2021). NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture. Convergence (London, England), 27(5), 1418–1438. 

Suzor, N., Dragiewicz, M., Harris, B., Gillett, R., Burgess, J., & Van Geelen, T. (2019). Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender‐Based Violence Online. Policy and Internet, 11(1), 84–103. 

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