Unfortunately, there's no cure for the GIFTheory (I do love that one though I wish it weren't true!) save for people learning some manners and boundaries.
I've been stalked IRL, but thankfully never cyberstalked. The difference: I knew who my stalker was. I could get a legal document delivered to him. With cyberstalking, you're being stalked by a screenname that could be deleted in five minutes.
One early sort of social philosopher in the early days of the internet (like way back in usenet) called the internet 'the playground of the id'. Sometimes that's good (robot porn, games) and sometimes, the id has a very, very dark side.
Curiously, I presented that Facebook case to my students and asked them what they'd have decided as the jury. They were all for acquittal, calling the victim 'stupid' and saying she 'should have known better'. I was...a little taken aback by their lack of sympathy.
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Date: 2010-07-07 04:40 pm (UTC)I've been stalked IRL, but thankfully never cyberstalked. The difference: I knew who my stalker was. I could get a legal document delivered to him. With cyberstalking, you're being stalked by a screenname that could be deleted in five minutes.
One early sort of social philosopher in the early days of the internet (like way back in usenet) called the internet 'the playground of the id'. Sometimes that's good (robot porn, games) and sometimes, the id has a very, very dark side.
Curiously, I presented that Facebook case to my students and asked them what they'd have decided as the jury. They were all for acquittal, calling the victim 'stupid' and saying she 'should have known better'. I was...a little taken aback by their lack of sympathy.