No one hoped for gender violence in 2022 to rub out completely but no one knew the harassment would begin so soon, so much louder into the new year. A recap of the first tiring week.
“These repeat offences will not be taken sitting down,” say women harassed in the Sulli Deals cyberbullying incident. A timeline of what happened.
Accusations of bullying in K-Pop circles seem to be surfacing with alarming regularity. Here’s a deepdive into past controversies and the reason for this sudden upsurge.
As of March 2015, Section 66A IT Act is no longer law. It was struck down by the Supreme Court as being unconstitutional.
Actor Ananya Panday has launched her first Digital Social Responsibility initiative called So+, which aims to spread awareness on cyberbullying.
Call it toxic fandom or maddening craze for the virtual world, after suffering months of racist and sexist abuse on social media, Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran, 29, has deleted all her posts from the social media site Instagram. Tran has deleted all her posts, leaving the site with a line in her biography that reads “Afraid, […]
February is SheThePeople.TV’s anti-trolling campaign. We are so tired of cyber bullies trying to have their say. But with every bully is a strong woman who fights back. Cyber-bullying is especially rampant amongst the young population. Sometimes it gets so bad that it leads teens to commit suicide, as was the case with the Florida […]
Monica Lewinsky called out TV network HLN after CNN announced a special called The Monica Lewinsky Scandal. She asked why the media insisted on shaming her and naming the scandal after her when it was really the then US President Bill Clinton’s scandal. In a tweet, she offered more appropriate titles like The Clinton Impeachment […]
A 32-year-old woman filed a complaint of molestation after a Twitter user called her fat. She approached the police and said the Twitter user had defamed her on the social media platform, according to Sunil Deshmukh, assistant commissioner of police, Dadar. The accused is from Africa. He had said fat people don’t have the right […]
People batting for firecrackers — despite the ban in Delhi-NCR — showed their cheap mentality by taking potshots at designer Masaba Gupta who supported the court order. The trolls hit below the belt, calling her a “bastard child” and “illegitimate West Indian”. Celebrities have responded both positively and negatively on the cracker ban. Writer Chetan Bhagat has […]
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