After reading the article, “A Rape in Cyberspace” by Julian Dibbell I think that online rape is a very serious issue. Rape in general, has always been something that I found horrifying because its so unbelievably wrong, horrible and inappropriate. The Bungle Case shows the severity of rape and how it can change the lives of its victims for the rest of their life. According to Dibbell, “MUD rapists were of course assholes, but the presence of assholes on the system was a technical inevitability, like a noise on a phone line, and best dealt with not through repressive social disciplinary mechanisms”. Online rape definently exists and is becoming a real issue in our world because it truly frightens people to the point to where they have no idea of what to do know what to do. In the other case, when people are on online social networks they often have the choice to stop talking to the person who is abusing them online and can either block them or join another social network. I think social hackers are predators because they are just looking for some kind of attention on the internet. Chances are that they truly have no lives so they like to be someone else on the internet to enhance their self-esteem as someone different. I do believe that online rape is a real issue and that it takes tolls on peoples live each and every day. But they can prevent it by not putting themselves in that kind of situation.
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