The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women - The Atlantic
In
December 2012, an Icelandic woman named Thorlaug Agustsdottir
discovered a Facebook group called “Men are better than women.” One
image she found there, Thorlaug wrote to us this summer in an email,
“was of a young woman naked chained to pipes or an oven in what looked
like a concrete basement, all bruised and bloody. She looked with a
horrible broken look at whoever was taking the pic of her curled up
naked.
In an increasing number of countries, rapists are now
filming their rapes on cell phones so they can blackmail victims out of
reporting the crimes. In August, after a 16-year-old Indian girl was
gang-raped, she explained, “I was afraid. While I was being raped,
another man pointed a gun and recorded me with his cellphone camera. He
said he will upload the film on the Net if I tell my family or the
police
