Cyber Harassment
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Cyber Harassment
Internet Defamation & Internet Trolls
Cyber Harassment is the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to harass, control, manipulate or habitually disparage a child, adult, business or group without a direct or implied threat of physical harm. Unlike physical harassment involving face-to-face contact, cyber harassment requires the use of ICT and is verbal, sexual, emotional or social abuse of a person, group or organization. The cyber harasser’s primary goal is to exert power and control over the targeted victim(s).
When minors are involved, Cyberbullying is the term describing Cyber Harassment and when direct or implied physical harm to the targeted victim(s) is involved, Cyber Harassment becomes Cyberstalking. Another similar term often used to define Cyber Harassment, but slightly different in assailant modus operandi, is Internet Troll.
What is Cyber Harassment?
(https://nobullying.com/what-is-cyber-harassment/)
What is cyber harassment? It is the use of the internet to make unsolicited advances, communications or interactions with another person or entity. A true definition of cyber harassment or cyber stalking does not yet exist due to the many forms it can take. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, one key point in defining and using the terms cyber harassment and cyber bullying is the perpetrator’s age. In most cases, the term cyber bullying refers to unsolicited communications or stalking activities between minors. The term cyber harassment is normally used when adults are involved.
We will look back at cyber-harassment as a disgrace – if we act now
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/cyber-harassment-cyberbullying-revenge-porn-education-laws)
Attitudes towards online abuse have undergone a sea change over the last decade. In the past, cyber-harassment – often a perfect storm of threats, impersonations, defamation, and privacy invasions directed at an individual – was routinely dismissed as “no big deal”.