Negatives Of Anonymity

Of the many problems faced by children and adolescents, few provoke such moral outrage as childhood sexual abuse. Many times, as on the television show “To Catch a Predator”, such abuse can be inflicted by strangers who may gradually become familiar with the child online. Sadly, however, often times the perpetrator of sexual abuse on children is someone much more familiar to the child- someone the child may even love.

In the essay Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt, by Julie Zhou, her thesis is “But the law by itself cannot do enough to disarm the internet’s trolls. Content providers, social network platforms and community sites must also do their part by rethinking the systems they have in place, for user commentary so as to discourage- or disallow- anonymity.” Zhou’s thesis is located in the first two sentences of paragraph nine, on page 89. 2. The issue Zhou addresses in this essay is trolling on the internet.

“While individuals may not have an expectation of privacy in public, they do have an expectation of anonymity. A person expects to be able to walk down the street and blend into the crowd. There are many public settings in which a person does not expect to be recorded, even if they could be casually observed. Some of these settings could be sensitive, embarrassing, or incriminating…” [3].

One of the best approaches to identify, prosecute, and arrest on-line sex offenders (i.e. pedophiles) is to be actively engage in the online-chat rooms (i.e. online enticement sting). In here, high-tech crime investigators must follow-up a protocol. First, he/she must create an identity to look like an underage individual. In the chat transcript provided for the case-study, the undercover officer chooses “bubblebeth2005” (ITT-Technical Institute , 2014). With this user name, the officer personifies a 12 years old girl. In order to accomplish rapport with the offender, the

2008). Unfortunately, majority of youths who are targeted by the online predators and accept invitations to meet in person tend to acknowledge that they will likely be engage in sexual relationship(Wolak et al, 2008). Thus, these factors illustrates that children in Canada require great cares and protections from the online predators.

All this is to say; yes, there are problems with anonymous speech. It leaves the door open for lies and malevolent intentions. But also, shutting that door completely inhibits people to have courage to speak up against injustice or malpractice. Americans need to recognize that freedom to speak openly is under fire… we need to defend all kinds of speech. In the words of Justice Brandies, “The remedy is more speech,” be it anonymous or

Jenna Chang, along with people who first studied the concept of anonymity in deindividuated behaviour, imposes findings through method of experimentations

Bully's were once were bigger and stronger than their victims, but now teenagers can hide behind a computer screen and leave hateful comments. Social media sites such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram, etc. are the outlets for teens who feel the need to put people down and publicly humiliate others where everyone can see. One would think that since these types of bullying or harassment is seen publicly by others, there would be more of an opportunity for someone to defend the victim but that's not necessarily the case. Often times bullies are publicly encouraged by their friends or others who may feel that way. This leaves potential defenders feeling too intimidated to do anything about it. Askfm, Yik Yak, After School, are a few of the anonymous websites where people can post things about others and stay completely unidentified. Many comments are made about teenagers amongst these sites and majority are negative. Its no wonder this generation has self confidence

It's hard to be invisible these days, while the internet life is overtopping the real one. We can find anything about anyone on social media. People do everything using internet: they selling, buying, meet new people, learning, reading, communicate, and posting things about themselves. Internet is a very strong and powerful tool; one click on the button is able to make you famous all over the world. Undoubtedly, internet now is a big part of our life, because it's very convenient and saves a lot of time, but another side of it, which we're often neglecting, is that internet doesn't forget anything. Everything one have ever posted online, stay there forever. People don't always like what they see when they Google themselves. Sometimes

In the scholarly article “Child Seduction and Self-Representation on the Internet” by Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor, we learn how the internet plays a big role in how pedophiles may engage in child pornography and how they can locate children to potentially abuse. Offenders also use the internet to get in contact and to communicate with others who are also engaging in child pornography and pedophilia. The following is an explanation of child sexual abuse that happens in the internet.

Is anonymous doing right by exposing the government and big corporations? There is one simple answer, yes. They find the wrong in governments around the world, in big corporations, and even other groups and expose them for the lies they have told, wrong they have done, and let us know the secrets that they try to hide from us.

As technology surrounding the internet has grown there has a been a new movement to connect the world. Specifically, teens have become more inclined to socialize and connect with friends, family, and strangers through the internet. Teenagers are known for being vulnerable, naïve, having a vast desire to find acceptance with their peers or society and are obsessed with love. With the connection of the internet, social media, and teen it has created completely new moral panic; catfishing. According to, to Merriam-Webster catfishing is defined as an individual who creates a fake profile on a social networking site to deceive or manipulate others ("Catfish"). Primarily, those who catfish use their fake profiles to gain romantic relationships with other social network users. Teens began creating fake profiles through their instinct of wanting to fit in but, this led to teens catfishing to fulfill their dreams of finding acceptance. Catfishing is an internet moral panic because it is considered a social terror. The act of catfishing became a way for some teens to find acceptance but, parents feel that teens are not safe on social networking sites such as; Facebook because these deceptions can cause teens emotional and mental harm. Those constructing the moral panic continually scapegoated social network sites for the creation of catfishing and its side effects but, the true root cause of catfishing is teen’s inherent behavior.

Cyberbullies have used this to their advantages by threatening people anonymously by calling them names or by sometimes by telling them to not show up at school, or to die and kill themselves. (Shah 1-2). This type of behavior is unacceptable because by bullies being able to go undercover people who might have been afraid to say something can now do so being without having to worry about being discovered. Social media is the key to all of these bullies, without the use of social media most of these bullies wouldn't even bother anybody. They would realize that they will most likely get caught or get into a fight. Most people are too afraid to do this.

In relation to privacy, social networking and many other genres of the internet are one of the main and easiest places to track down people, many naïve victims, posts up their details on their profile, making it easy to enable stalkers or strangers to have advantage of virtually meeting you. This problem has caused many families to live in fear, not knowing how vulnerable they are to the outside world, where

On a very popular college gossip website called juicycampus.com, students could hide behind the “anonymity mask” posting anything they wanted while remaining anonymous to other users. This obviously had some consequences. Female students where being called sluts, whores and even their personal information such as their addresses and phone numbers were being given away on this website. Male students were being called jerks and some were said to have STD’s. Whether this was true or not, nobody should have to know