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Internet vigilantism is the act of carrying out vigilante activities through the Internet. The term encompasses vigilantism against alleged scams , crimes , and non-Internet-related behavior.
Feb 19, 2020 · Vigilantes and private security are policing the internet where governments have failed. Published: February 19, 2020 10:16am EST. The internet revolution of the past 20 years has opened up...
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Jul 20, 2021 · One noteworthy element of the current environment of entrepreneurial internet vigilantism is that it seems to primarily target white nationalist groups, rather than other sorts of extremist networks (such as those run by jihadists).
- Daniela Czerwinski
Vigilantism (/ v ɪ dʒ ɪ ˈ l æ n t ɪ z əm /) is the act of preventing, investigating and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority. A vigilante is a person who practices or partakes in vigilantism, or undertakes public safety and retributive justice without commission.
Nov 11, 2020 · Footnote 10 Digital vigilantism refers, but is not limited, to a basic principle of ‘naming and shaming’, or through a ‘weaponisation of visibility’, that is sharing the target’s personal details by publishing/distributing them on public sites (‘doxing’). According to Trottier ‘the emergence of social, geolocated, ubiquitous ...
- Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Samuel Tanner, Daniel Trottier
- 2020
Jun 6, 2020 · The Internet possesses many of the common traits that drive people toward vigilantism. For example, most Internet users will be exposed to some form of criminality online. However, the likelihood of wrongdoers being caught and punished is often low.
Nov 14, 2022 · This contemporary form of vigilantism, which has also been termed digital vigilantism (Trottier, 2017), online shaming (Skoric et al., 2010), Internet vigilantism (Chang, 2018), digilantism (Stratton et al., 2016), hacktivism (Klein, 2015) and netilantism (Chang and Poon, 2017), has been the subject of increased media attention, largely due to ...
