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US law enforcement agencies are using networking investigation techniques (NITs), "specially designed exploits or malware," in their investigations of child sexual exploitation and abuse (Finklea, 2017, p. 2).
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Daniel Seon Woong Lee is a South Korean musician known as Tablo, who was married to a South Korean actress and had a large fan base (Davis, 2012). Prior to his music career, Lee had completed one undergraduate and one graduate degree while at Stanford University. Following the fake diploma scandals in South Korea (where many high level private and state actors were found to have fraudulent educational credentials), anonymous citizens formed online groups to question Lee's credentials. The online forum "We Request the Truth from Tablo" (TaJinYo) was the largest of these groups (Davis, 2011). Members of this group and other Internet users anonymously attacked and abused Lee online. Evidence that proved Lee's credentials (even from Stanford University) were dismissed as being false evidence and the introduction of this evidence was considered part of a cover-up by people paid to lie on his behalf. Anyone who tried to defend him was also branded as a liar and experienced reputational harm. For this reason, few were willing to publicly support Lee. Even the media in South Korea reported on the claims provided by his online abusers without fact checking. This further exacerbated the problem. He was verbally abused and threatened in public, received death threats, was accosted in the street, and even shunned and ostracized by South Koreans. His attackers even targeted his family, defaming them, challenging their integrity, and threatening their lives. The cybercrimes committed against him largely (but not completely) stopped after he travelled to California with a camera crew and prominent South Korean journalist to video his trip to Stanford University to have his transcript verified on camera by Stanford University.
UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, HeforShe gender equality campaign started in 2014. The campaign received worldwide attention due to UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson's compelling speech during the session that went viral on social media.
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Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) is a significant social, legal and health problem around the globe that requires a comprehensive response incorporating both criminal and civil law, as well as corporate social responsibility on the part of social media and Internet intermediaries that provide a 'space' for such abuse to occur. There is also a need for greater education and awareness of this form of abuse within the community, if prevention is to occur.
Over the past five years, there has been greater attention to IBSA globally, as evidenced by parliamentary inquiries, public consultations, law reform efforts, media attention, as well as other proposed or enacted legal and non-legal measures in various jurisdictions. However, there continues to be a number of barriers to responding to IBSA, including inconsistent laws, a lack of resources, evidentiary limitations, jurisdictional restrictions, and victim-blaming attitudes that contribute to underreporting.
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