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Re-Shaming The Debate: Social Norms, Shame, And Regulation In An Internet Age, Kate Klonick
Re-Shaming The Debate: Social Norms, Shame, And Regulation In An Internet Age, Kate Klonick
Maryland Law Review
Advances in technological communication have dramatically changed the ways in which social norm enforcement is used to constrain behavior. Nowhere is this more powerfully demonstrated than through current events around online shaming and cyber harassment. Low cost, anonymous, instant, and ubiquitous access to the Internet has removed most—if not all—of the natural checks on shaming. The result is norm enforcement that is indeterminate, uncalibrated, and often tips into behavior punishable in its own right—thus generating a debate over whether the state should intervene to curb online shaming and cyber harassment.
A few years before this change in technology, a group …