Online Violence Against Women: A Contemporary Assessment of the Adequacy of the Online Safety Response
摘要
This chapter argues that to assess the adequacy of the current regulatory responses, the key question is whether or not there has been a sufficient response to online violence against women (OVAW). It explores the increasing recognition that online forms of violence are receiving, sounding a cautionary note about the expectations we can have of any regulatory framework before outlining some selective developments in the legal and policy landscape at regional and national levels surrounding OVAW to illustrate the shifting ecosystem before evaluating whether we are in a realistic place to combat online and digital forms of violence against women and whether we have realistic hopes of developing a regulatory framework suited to doing so. This chapter offers a contemporary assessment of the (in)adequacy of the regulatory responses concerning online safety and their applicability to OVAW to date.