• The Internet of Garbage (v. 1.5) By Sarah Jeong, 80 pages
    https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17777330/internet-of-garbage-book-sarah-jeong-online-harassment

    the internet is experienced completely differently by people who are
    visibly identifiable as a marginalized race or gender. It’s a nastier, more
    exhausting internet, one that gets even nastier and even more exhausting as
    intersections stack up.

    Harassment exists on two spectrums at once—one that is defined by
    behavior and one that is defined by content . The former is the better way to
    understand harassment, but the latter has received more attention in both
    popular discourse and academic treatments.

    #spam #harassment #moderation

    • Table of Contents
      Preface ............................................... 4
      Chapter One : The Internet Is Garbage .................. 6
      A Theory of Garbage .......................................... 8
      Spam as Garbage .............................................. 9
      Chapter Two : On Harassment ........................... 12
      Harassment in the News ...................................... 13
      About That Media Narrative . . . ............................ 18
      Is Harassment Gendered ? ..................................... 20
      Intersections of Harassment ................................. 21
      On Doxing ................................................... 24
      SWATting .................................................... 27
      Doxing Women ................................................ 28
      Concluding Thoughts on Doxing ............................... 30
      A Taxonomy of Harassment .................................... 32
      On Modern-Day Social Media Content Moderation ............... 35
      What Happens Before : Setting Norms .......................... 38
      Chapter Three : Lessons from Copyright Law ............ 40
      The Intersection of Copyright and Harassment ................ 41
      How the DMCA Taught Us All the Wrong Lessons ................ 44
      Turning Hate Crimes into Copyright Crimes ................... 47
      Chapter Four : A Different Kind of Free Speech ........ 51
      Stuck on Free Speech ........................................ 52
      The Marketplace of Ideas .................................... 54
      Social Media is a Monopoly .................................. 56
      Agoras and Responsibilities ................................. 59
      Chapter 5 : Spam : The Mother of All Garbage ........... 62
      What Is Spam ? ............................................... 63
      Spam and Free Speech ........................................ 66
      Harassment as Spam .......................................... 68
      Architectural Solutions to Harassment ....................... 70
      On the Size of the Internet ................................. 73
      Conclusion : The Two Futures of Anti-Harassment ....... 75

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      Online anonymity isn’t responsible for the prevalence of horrible behavior online. Shitty moderation is. - Zoë Quinn, March 21st, 2015