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    ’NAKI-STYLE JUSTICE

    Dec 27, 2020 5 minutes
    by REDMER YSKA

    Digital technology helped people to remain connected in lockdown periods during the past year, but the spikes in online traffic brought unwanted baggage: a surge in harmful communications, such as revenge porn.

    A study by online safety group Netsafe found the rate of offensive and threatening traffic in the March-May lockdown “quarter” was double that of other quarters during the year. Compared with the same period in 2019, it recorded a 35% increase in “sextortion” and a 45% increase in intimidation. Its confidential helpline was inundated with requests for support from people enduring online bullying, threatening behaviour and hate speech.

    Eighty men then descended on the house, dragging out the “libidinous wretch”. What happened next seems scarcely believable.

    Revenge porn – a wildly immediate version of

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