Twitter, together with WAM, is a good start to managing cyber harassment, but not too much to expect

According to foreign media reports, a few days ago Twitter announced a joint women, Action, and the Media (referred to as WAM) advocacy groups, women on its platform to investigate the harassment. The group has developed a tool that collects harassment reports and sends the confirmed content to Twitter. "We'll send the message to Twitter as soon as we get confirmation, and then we'll provide you with a quick solution." "But note: We are not Twitter, we can't make a decision for it," Wam explains. ”

It is reported that WAM developed this tool because of the recent game door, a large number of female game developers were abused or even threatened by netizens. Since then, people have asked Twitter to improve its shielding of information about internet harassment. A Twitter spokeswoman told the media: "We've been trying to improve our approach to dealing with cyber insults, and WAM has become one of our many collaborative organizations around the world who are committed to providing the best user security."

The combination of Twitter and WAM is just the beginning of a solution to the problem of women encountering cyber harassment. Can be expected, the result is that this approach to the network harassment of women can not be cured, or even have a good effect is still to be seen, after all, this is only a solution to the problem of network harassment, or even a palliative approach, a bit similar to the matter in the aftermath of the rescue measures. But it's better than nothing, and at least Twitter and WAM are actively looking for solutions to the problem.

Not only on Twitter, but also on women, internet harassment has been a worldwide problem, especially in countries and regions where social networks are pervasive. Last month, a study published by Pew Research Center also confirmed that cyber-harassment has become quite common. According to the report, 40% of the American adults surveyed said they had experienced internet harassment firsthand, and 73% said they had witnessed harassment.

44% of men and 37% of female Internet users have suffered at least one form of cyber harassment, including verbal abuse and stalking. But while men are slightly more likely to experience some sort of harassment than women, women, especially young women, face the most "serious" targets. Internet users are most likely to suffer network harassment on social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, the report shows. Two-thirds of those surveyed who had experienced cyber harassment said that social networking sites or apps were the site of the latest harassment, and 22% said the most recent harassment was in the comments section of a website, and 16% in online games.

Even in Asian countries, Internet harassment is common. In Japan, the issue of "harassment" is a major social problem. Japanese media gesanchaiwu News about internet harassment, which could even turn into a major homicide case. Japan passed and began implementing restrictive harassment laws in 2000, but the means of communication are limited to telephones, faxes and e-mails, excluding the recent emergence of social media such as line and Facebook. However, harassment incidents related to social media such as line have occurred. In August this year, the Japanese Police Office issued a report on how to limit harassment by restricting social media, such as line and Facebook, as a limiting target for harassment.

In China, Internet harassment is not uncommon. For example, the common QQ Group, micro-bo, micro-letter, MO, and so on the network social media in the fire network harassment. For example, Hong Kong star Shu Qi was overwhelmed by comments from Weibo users and had to close his microblog comments and even withdrew from Weibo for a period of time until the incident subsided. QQ Group also has a similar situation, earlier this year, the Internet has reported recently, in the network there is also discussion of "sexual harassment" QQ Group, the group of topics is to discuss how to communicate in public transport sexual harassment of women. Visible in the domestic, in the current network of comparative fire, network harassment is also the existence and has been an urgent problem to be resolved.

In both Europe and the United States, and in Asia, China and Japan, network harassment has been a problem, and often the problem of network harassment is not only for women, but relatively, more vicious harassment against women. Relatively speaking, the European and American legal system is more comprehensive and perfect, but the face of network harassment and other problems are also very difficult, can not be fundamentally eliminated, often many times is "No business, there is no killing" of the duplicate, that is "no interest, there is no harassment." And even if the law enforcement agencies to vigorously combat network harassment, it will be difficult to obtain evidence, long time cycle, it is difficult to determine the nature of the problem of accountability and other aspects of network harassment is still rampant. In the relative backwardness of the legal system in Asia, especially in the country, how quickly to form a legislative protection, the law is the key feasible first step.

In the current situation, Twitter together WAM, only to solve the problem of female network harassment at the beginning, but in fact, is a good step, at least can be engaged in the problem of network harassment and effective control. But what is called for is not just Twitter, but more social networking sites or apps that should be able to form a coalition to fight the cyber harassment of evil forces. In addition, to say, Twitter WAM, because of the specificity of the WAM organization, so in response to the problem of female network harassment, but in fact, as mentioned in the article, men will also suffer from network harassment, this way, men suffer from network harassment should also be protected, It should also be organized to provide support and assistance to men who suffer from cyber harassment. On the whole, legal supervision must keep pace with the new situation of the development of new needs, with the times, can not stifle network innovation, but also can not condone network violence, cybercrime, and malicious network harassment. In addition, before the law is sound, legal supervision is effective, entrepreneurs and enterprises should fulfill their social responsibilities, it is best to form alliances, put into action, network harassment "Force Swing", together to create a more secure and clean network environment.