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Cynthia Lowen’s powerful documentary Netizens highlights three women as each wages war against one of the internet’s most malevolent forces: prevalent and un-policed misogyny, harassment, and stalking. Directed at thousands of women daily by way of social media, it lies in plain sight, and its ramifications never remain only online. The film deftly depicts not only the forms digital abuse can take, from non-consensual pornography to invasion of privacy, but also the consequences for its victims.
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Walking into this I was expecting to hate this for a different reason. Featuring Anita Sarkeesian (which I consider to be a toxic "victim") and all female opening credits I was ready for some proper man hating. To my surprise it didn't really dwell too much in that area and focused on the stories of the three mains, that however wasn't really balanced or fruitful either. Besides pointing out some issues in regards to online abuse (bullying, revenge porn, stalking), there were no solutions provided or looked at in more detail (bleh bleh Sillicon Valley is enabling people and the police cannot help us). It also was extremely one sided and focused on really imho irrelevant stuff at times (Carrie Goldberg's obsession with glamour or Tina Reine's medical condition). I was curious of the aftermath of Tina's case (after no one told her that she can also use Google non-personalized results) and only found more evidence that this certainly held a lot of information away from the viewer (http://tinareinenetizens.blogspot.com/2018/09/netizens-tina-reine-victim-or-predator.html - in the scope this information is reliable anyways). Too bad this doc took the title away from a legit documentary about Netizens...