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from the 27th of march 5th 6 30 pm for the soccer game to speak up for the. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see himself as the kids find a strange grownup her. might object to her to share with her friends. she does leave books on youtube. sexual harassment threats affright the murder when it comes to silencing women online trolls have no limits women who voice their opinions freely and regularly are often targeted online hate speech against women and what we can do to fight it our topic today unshift.

sadly just being a woman being online and having an opinion is often all it takes to be targeted with online hate speech or sexual harassment in a recent study from the us 33 percent of women aged 35 or younger stated that they had experienced sexual harassment online before compared to just 11 percent of men in the same age group female politicians and journalists who often publicly voice their opinion or especially at risk one 3rd of all women journalists who have been targeted by hateful online campaign have thought about switching professions what is it like to experience online hate speech and what are the impacts we ask women who speak their mind online i was the target of many breeding and harassment complaints online i have often been at the receiving end of incessant online trolling from people who disagreed with me on my reports so you know it kind of started with the facebook death threat and then it kind of became this massive harassment case where i would get

a lot of comments under my article and people would just disgusts me on the fly as if you know i didn't exist discuss the many ways of you know how they would like to rape me or have make you know or you know the things that they would just see me 3 women who have encountered abuse harassment and threats online these experiences have real consequences for the women who are targeted it must be very hard to be resilient and continue. to speak up my colleague charge me has been working as a journalist for 6 years currently for stanley office she's active on twitter and her reports can easily be found online the more she reports on political issues the more she is targeted by online hate speech for fear of being trolled online there have been times when i have said censored my parts and many other women journalists do the same in my opinion the online abuse of the image on the street should be recognized as an attack on the freedom of speech and expression law enforcement

agencies to be sensitized and strengthened enough to identify these threats and take action also newsrooms across the country want to do to make women journalists safe and secure wherever they go under in the country as a t.v. reporter many of our children travels around down in the surrounding area recently she's been mostly reporting on the coronavirus pandemic but many have also covers controversial issues her gender still plays a role in how people react. as a woman's and it's often been we feel quite conscious of my gender whenever i've been out in the field reporting while traveling to remote areas and reporting assignments i act to ensure that the people i would say we had with people. with access to be sometimes were patient so i often carried a can of pepper spray with myself as well and was traveling within these remote areas i want to be said my live location with a group of friends to my phone so people would know off my bed about you.

and i have to hide it easier than many of the images that are out of the online abuse on a daily basis many of them feel that they make this a drip that social media just setting their appeal and the attacks on not just confined to the online would have been reports of women journalists getting physically and sexually harassed while out and reporting the current example are the firmest protests in india ongoing since 2020 which have also led to violence both online and. offline here 2 women who engage with the issue and voice their opinion are specifically attacked online journalist reported internationally about the demands of the striking farmers and ended up being targeted herself. are you busy renowned journalist how working to its writing on issues surrounding kateri and violence and political uprisings in india for the washington post and she does not shy away from criticizing indian prime minister narendra modi. all criticism of

modi planning has been talking to us by national news to induce at the beginning of february she posted this on twitter the kind of hate message me threats of use i have seen on my timeline in the last 2 days is something i have never witnessed before. this is not intimidation i don't know what is. this tweet to unleash another round of online harassment reactions ranged from cartoon death threats to calls about how to leave the country. one week rates have run out and you spoke up about the hate speech being directed at. some days of bad others unbearable the last few days the death rate press the abuse extended towards my family has been tiring and traumatizing online hate speech has very real impacts on consequences on people's lives that extend fabi on the internet near opt out allow works for organizations like women in news and the arab foundation for freedom and equality in lebanon as a journalist she's been targeted by aggressive online campaign before she says

online hate speech is being used to teach it as a way to silence women so one way that is common also with other countries of the word the income of a woman journalist them for whatever day or doing or from stating an opinion is online harassment and unfortunately it's working for a lot of the time because we do not have offices and we do not have a system but protects women. so since we do not have a system their own line harassment is usually succeeding in silencing or intimidate equipment. the global me to move encouraged women around the world to speak out about online harassment many women realized that the online abuse they faced was not an isolated incident now they're supporting each other in taking on online drug. women are supporting women they've supported

each other long before but now it's it's out there it's open from what i see on social media from what i see even on the streets during revolutions the support between women women is getting much bigger and for one reason the awareness i don't get asked men is becoming bigger in society and that more women are encouraged to speak and these women will start to be the solicitor to speak will encourage other women to ski so the main the main support comes from women themselves this is also the case with indian journalists on how you she receive support primarily from other women journalists around the globe. one of ron a huge supporter is on twitter is absolute gabler who told us about receiving death threats on facebook the azerbaijani journalist has been reporting on conflicts between azerbaijan and armenia and turkey she's been attacked online multiple times

at one point the constant online abuse forced her to take a break i have to deactivate my instagram account i have to deactivate my facebook account and i have to lock my twitter account to limit the i have my twitter behavior as are so my friend coming from after everywhere. taking a break from the internet can be a good way to gain some distance from the abuse because hate speech can make you ill psychologically and physically but it's not always possible for women to just ignore the online world this is especially true for female politicians a study by amnesty international india states that the more visible a politician is the more abuse she receives the human rights organization had analyzed tweets directed at $95.00 indian female politicians and found that every 7th message was offensive or abusive. a german news magazine recently found that 64 percent of women in the german parliament have been targeted by hate speech most of it online and in europe 58 percent of all women who participated in the survey had

encountered threats and abuse on social media on the whole women across the globe face much heavier attacks the men when he spoke about it asked me against women we talk about blackmailing we talk about invading privacy we talk about sexual harassment this type of harassment are not experienced by men clearly there are huge differences in how women are targeted as opposed to men what can women do as i have to learn how to cope with the hateful messages now she gives advice to other women in online courses 1st of all. try not to drown and that hate because once you start reading you want to read more and then friends that are sending you things and you just really need more and it really impacts your health your mental health your physical health. another thing i recommend is have

a you know be open about this 1st of all you're not the only difference face a misstep or pressman's there are so many other women and there are other organizations that help these women. to process this to address it and also probably do something about it. make sure that there is a support mechanism that you can go to or you can even ask your friends to go over your social media accounts because. you really need to know that you have a support mechanism you cannot handle this on your own. even if it's a minor classic whence you can still for instance get that council spend it or you know find the person and reach out to someone at the company of social media platform company so what about the companies behind social media platforms why don't facebook and co adequately protect women from online hate speech the big

social media firms like to point to freedom of expression when confronted with these questions but ever since former u.s. president donald trump's online accounts were suspended the guidelines on deleting online hate speech seem to be changing well it's definitely a fine line between censorship and removing. its content i think sometimes it is obvious what might electress and still social media platforms are not doing anything about it. this is why i'm here at dillard demands a multinational i'm not a forbes like twitter facebook instagram invest in more stuff to monitor online content and to employ people who can understand the cultural and societal specifics of different regions of the wild in order to adequately assess online content social media platform should invest in more people from within countries a preview of the company so inevitably to portland some think it will 1st of all it

will take 48 hours or 3 days or a week to be the 2nd thing to have more people from the region from lebanon or from jordan or from egypt because the grid know the context of these so whatever looks like something that does not violate the community standards of this platforms it's might actually put people at risk in our countries what other rules that determine how we communicate with one another shouldn't the same rules apply online as well as. this would also mean prohibiting users from remaining anonymous if they abuse others online that's the only way to work towards tackling online hate speech against women what have your experiences been let us know on you tube facebook already w dot com that's all for me today by and see you next time. toyota's

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