Once a woman was mentioned, her privacy was permanently violated. Users often share social media, which makes other members contact her intimate image or send disparaging documents.
Anonymous can be a protective tool for women to navigate online harassment. But it can also be accepted by bad agents using similar structures to avoid responsibility.
“It is sarcastic,” Miller said. “The privacy structures that women use to protect themselves are turning away from them.”
The increase of spaces is not handled as the abuse groups make it almost unable to track the culprit, exposing a systemic defeat in law enforcement and regulations. If there is no clear jurisdiction or supervision, the platforms can overcome responsibilities.
Sophie Mortimer, a revenge -based pornography manager in the United Kingdom, warned that Telegram became one of the biggest threats to online safety. She said that the UK charity reports on Telegram on abuse of intimate images were not surprised. We will consider them not to comply with our requirements, she said. However, Telegram said that they only received about 10 parts of the content from pornography, all were deleted. Mortimer has not answered Wired questions about the authenticity of the Telegram requirements.
Despite the recent updates for the UK's online safety law, the legal implementation of online abuse is still weak. October 1, 2024 report From the charity -based charity in the United Kingdom, Cyber Helpline shows that life victims face significant barriers in reporting abuse and justice for online criminals capable of Seven times less than offline criminals.
“There is still this long -term idea that cyber criminals have no real consequences,” Charlotte Hooper, the head of the operating line of the network assistance line, helped support the victims of cybercriminals. “But if you look at victim studies, cyber criminals are like without psychological harm than physical criminals.”
A Telegram spokesman told Wired that its executive uses AI tools and AI learning machines to eliminate content that violates the rules of the platform, including porn and doxing content. .
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Hooper says that survivors of digital harassment often change work, move the city or even withdraw from public life due to injury of being targeted online. A systematic failure to realize these cases is a serious crime that allows the culprit to continue operating with punishment.
However, when these networks develop more, social media companies have failed to fully resolve holes in moderation.
Telegram, although an estimated 950 million users operate monthly worldwide, claim it is too small to be eligible as a huge online platform, under the Digital Service Act of the Union of Union of Union Europe, allowing it to surpass the supervision of some regulations. A spokesman for the company said that Telegram attaches great importance to his responsibility according to DSA and communicates regularly with the European Commission, a spokesman for the company.
In the UK, some civil society groups have Expressing concerns Regarding the use of large private religious groups, up to 200,000 members. These groups exploit a loophole by operating under the cover of Islam's private communication to break the legal requirements to eliminate illegal content, including insignificant intimate images. .
If there is no stronger regulations, online abuse will continue to develop, adapt to new platforms and avoid supervision.
Digital spaces to protect privacy are currently composting its most invasive violations. These networks not only develop, they adapt, spread on platforms and learn how to avoid responsibility.