HOW ONLINE SPEECH GOES WRONG
Social media makes it easy for people to throw shade, which means it’s easy for harassment to quickly snowball online. The following are real accounts of people’s experiences with online shaming and harassment, as told to the author—some incidents will be
Online shaming, bullying, and harassment. Janice got dragged (and rightfully so, she re ects for being sexist on acebook and various forums, while three other respondents mentioned that they were bullied online for “real-life bullying that extended to the internet
One-sided discourse. haming someone online can be done with the misplaced intention of “educating someone —which sometimes masks a desire for likes within our social circles, brownie points for wokeness, as writer ika izon explores in an article on coutmag ph The option for likes and shares can make social media more like an approval machine, more than actual engagement
Cultural activist ona al-Raschid’s experience with online shaming happened on Twitter, after she posted a thread explaining why she couldn’t relate to a certain lm “The direct responses I got were positive, [but] I was alerted to people subtweeting me Complete strangers mocked her personal opinions, making fun of her argument and the examples used in her thread
Political propaganda. There are a lot of insensitive and legitimately hateful things oating around on the internet This is especially seen in the context of our tense political climate here in the hilippines, manifesting online through trolls and fake news This shapes public opinion with warped versions of the truth, even going so far as to harass those who disagree
An example of online political harassment would be that endured by athania Chua, a university instructor vocal in her criticism of the current administration In retaliation for her pointed critiques of blogger-turned-government of cial Mocha son, athania’s online details were exposed in a post made by political activist ass asot athania recalls that in the post, “ ass fabricated a lot of things about me, about how I work and my institution he mentions there was no basis to what ass said, and both ass and Mocha have thousands of followers who believe the propaganda peddled against her
Slut-shaming. Two of the responses had to do with slut-shaming, as oey was called out for posting a photo of herself in a crop top aye , on the other hand, was insulted for her clothing and looks uys, it’s the 21st century, and some people still can’t wrap their minds around the idea that what people wear is none of their business There’s no harm in someone being proud of their looks and posting an T ; what’s harmful is making assumptions about a woman’s character or sex life based on her clothing