Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

Author:Safiya Umoja Noble [Noble, Safiya Umoja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC031000 Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, COM060120 Computers / Web / Search Engines
Publisher: NYU Press

The circulation of sexually explicit material has prompted thirty-four states to enact “revenge porn” laws, or laws that address nonconsensual pornography (NCP), defined by the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative as the distribution of sexually graphic images of individuals without their consent.4 Laws currently range from misdemeanors to felonies, depending on the nature of the offense. On December 4, 2015, the first conviction under the California “revenge porn” law, of Noe Iniguez, was reported by the Los Angeles Times. Iniguez posted to Facebook a topless photo of his ex-girlfriend, including a series of slurs that included encouraging her employer to fire her.5 In December 2015, Hunter Moore of IsAnyoneUp.com was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to “one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information for purposes of private financial gain and one count of aggravated identity theft,” according to the Washington Post.6

What does it mean that one’s past is always determining one’s future because the Internet never forgets?

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