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Cases of cyber harassment against women in India have always been a burning debate. Being a woman on the web implies inboxes immersed with grimy messages, unrealistic selfie photographs made foul with drooling remarks, conclusions reacted to with vulgar abuses. That loathsomeness is dramatically complex when diverse personalities become an integral factor. Cyberbullying, objectification and targeting of women in the cyber world across the globe are boundless.
There is no lack of issues and battles in the existence of women. Online harassment is a method of causing them to feel unsafe in broad daylight spaces, which then, at that point could prompt them to be limited to their homes. They are additionally faulted for “uploading a picture on the web” rather than making a move on the harassers, who are really criminals, who straightforwardly take cover behind a computer screen with no dread and continue to do these obnoxious acts, and are not ever dragged behind the bars.
Being on the internet is not safe; and that viciousness and harassment against women on online stages prospers, with apparently zero responsibility.
People running such sites or YouTube channels, or other social media platforms feel that they are not contacting or genuinely bugging a woman, and consequently feel more encouraged, as they do not see it as a genuine form of harassment. In any case, using pictures and recordings of women from online media, and examining or remarking on their actual appearance, likewise goes under the class of crime.
Regardless of where a woman resides, whichever country she has a place with, the weight of her safety is constantly put on her head. Being on the internet is not safe; and that viciousness and harassment against women on online stages prospers, with apparently zero responsibility. However, Muslim women are exposed to the worst of cyber harassment, inferable from the politically enraptured condition of the country.
This conviction is just upheld by the way cases of cyber harassment like ‘Sulli Deals‘ is not the first run through Muslim women’s safety on the web has been compromised – and there appear to be no indications of this emergency decreasing at any point in the near future.
Sulli Deals is the filthiest thing I have come across in recent times. Stealing pictures of women of a particular community and putting them to ‘auction’ as deals…What a sick mind. Disgusting. https://t.co/vCxiy1wOqq
— Arun Bothra ?? (@arunbothra) July 5, 2021
Only a couple of months ago, women commending the event of Eid in India and Pakistan in May 2021 were left embarrassed when they found that photographs they had posted online were being sexualised, evaluated and being utilized in a virtual auction on YouTube.
However, in India, social media platforms are battling an alternate battle. They have been challenging the recently implemented IT laws in the country, which pundits say put a question on privacy and free speech, and can prompt substantial surveillance and censorship.
Where does the response to curb and at last end this designated digital harassing of minority networks lie? Will guaranteeing women’s screen time and exposure on social media platforms stop victimizers and possible attackers? Since some on the web, after the Sulli Deals harassment scene, appear to propose that.
Will guaranteeing women’s screen time and exposure on social media platforms stop victimizers and possible attackers?
Women are being sold a similar age-old, trash patriarchal society under the pretense of benevolent exhortation by netizens who are encouraging them to not have an excessive number of opinions and not cause a lot of attention to themselves. Is it accurate to say that we are not policed the same way offline as well?
Call it fearless-hearted boldness or the advancement of a specific insusceptibility to harassment, Muslim women are declining to withdraw now against cyber harassment and be quiet onlookers of how their personality is characterized on the web. The issue is that the culprits go without any consequence, and neither the police nor society, who are answerable for women’s safety, pull up these men. Can anyone explain why as opposed to putting them behind the bars, women are relied upon to shroud their appearances and their opportunity, their sense of dignity choked?
Women are undependable either inside or outside their homes, and there is no redressal when they complain. What sort of society do we live in, even in 2021?
Editorial by: Aishwarya Samanta
