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  1. The term internet vigilantism describes punitive public denunciations, aimed at swaying public opinion in order to “take justice into one's own hands” by engaging in forms of targeted surveillance, unwanted attention, negative publicity, repression, coercion or dissuasion.

  2. Nov 11, 2020 · By drawing on a range of cases over between 2015 and 2018, this article proposes ideal types of mediated intervention: flagging, investigating, hounding and organised leaking. These practices underscore the variance of digital vigilantism in context and intensity.

    • Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Samuel Tanner, Daniel Trottier
    • 2020
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  4. Jun 6, 2020 · This chapter looks at the rise of online vigilantism in the modern era. It seeks to define the actions of online vigilantes and explores the motivations and the actions undertaken by those who engage in these extra-legal activities.

  5. Jul 20, 2021 · Without safeguards in place to hold actors accountable and prevent malicious activity, online vigilantism will continue to exist in an ethical and legal gray area, rife with danger and subject to malevolent use.

    • Daniela Czerwinski
  6. Digital vigilantism involves direct online actions of targeted surveillance, dissuasion or punishment which tend to rely on public denunciation or on an excess of unsolicited attention, and are carried out in the name of justice, order or safety.

    • Benjamin Loveluck
  7. Nov 14, 2022 · The findings highlight three dominant responses to cyber-vigilantism: (1) public support for cyber-vigilantism; (2) doxing as a human rights issue; and (3) a lack of faith in the criminal justice system.

  8. Jun 26, 2018 · Dr Chang cites and examines intriguing stories from Asia, beginning with what he thinks was the first suspected case of internet vigilantism, in China in 2006. Internet vigilantes (netilantes) – the self-styled vigilantes – outed a prominent gamer who was having extramarital affairs.

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