Hate Crimes in CyberspaceSome see the Internet as a Wild West where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure verbal attacks in the name of free speech protection. Danielle Keats Citron rejects this view. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it. |
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| Title | Hate Crimes in Cyberspace |
| Author | Danielle Keats Citron |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 2014 |
| ISBN | 0674744659, 9780674744653 |
| Length | 351 pages |
| Subjects | › › Law / Computer & Internet Law / Legal History Political Science / Public Policy / General |
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