The United Nations has a radical, dangerous vision for the future of the Web
It may not have intended to, precisely, but the United Nations just took sides in the Internet’s most brutal culture war.
On
Thursday, the organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital
Development released a damning “world-wide wake-up call” on what it
calls “cyber VAWG,” or violence against women and girls. The report
concludes that online harassment is “a problem of pandemic proportion” —
which, nbd, we’ve all heard before.
[Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds]
(United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development)
