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