She makes clear that Cronon has done nothing improper; she defends academic freedom; and, in a final address to faculty, she encourages them "to ask difficult questions, explore unpopular lines of thought and exercise your academic freedom, regardless of your point of view" — and, presumably, regardless of politically motivated efforts at harassment.
They're upbeat about their timing, despite moves by websites to turn off comments and a general sense of fatigue among web users about the entire commenting process owing to the effort vs harassment ratio.
Pao has been leading the site's efforts to reduce harassment — and has received abuse and petitions asking her to step down in the aftermath.
The two families that own the hedges counter that such efforts amount to harassment and say that, if conditions were right, they could be prevailed to do some hedge trimming.
We have to recognize that our efforts to stop harassment will require us to become more comfortable in those gray areas.
"He was supposed to talk about it . . . the anti-discrimination and anti-harassment efforts, and he beautifully sidestepped the whole thing," she said.
He cautions against anti-harassment efforts that "average out peoples' opinions," since that kind of simple math tends to reframe the problem as something two-dimensional that doesn't reflect a complex reality.
The space was created as part of an increased effort to address harassment and sexual assault at music festivals, said the Waikato Times.
Steph Guthrie just dragged herself through the justice system in an effort to lessen harassment of women online, and three (plus) women just stood up against formerly adored CBC broadcaster/alleged woman abuser Jian Ghomeshi.
Fortunately, doxing's impact is being recognized, and solutions are in development, including anti-harassment efforts by social media networks, services that inform people when they've been doxed and, when necessary, law enforcement notification tools for when victims are at an elevated risk for danger.
