Date published:
April 27, 2016
"For the vast majority of online harassers, however, the benefit is not monetary but psychological, says Danielle Citron, professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.
“You think of a site like 4chan, where people actually proclaim themselves trolls,” she says. “They derive pleasure from other people’s pain. They’re doing it for the lulz.”"
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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on April 26, 2016 at 10:00AM