When a woman was mentioned, her privacy was permanently endangered. Users often share social media handles, which made other members call him – about intimate images or sending incompatible texts.
Being anonymous can be a tool for protecting women in online harassment. But it can also be accepted by bad actors who use the same structures to escape accountability.
Miller says, “This is ironic.” “Highly privacy structures that women use to protect themselves are against them.”
The emergence of unexpected spaces, such as abuse telegram groups, makes it almost impossible to track the perpetrators and is exposed to systemic failure in the enforcement of law and regulations. Without competence or clear supervision, the operating systems are able to eliminate responsibility.
Sophie Mortimer, director of the UK Revenge Manual, warned that the telegram has become one of the biggest threats to online safety. He says the reports of the UK charity to telegram abuse of an intimate image are ignored. “We do not know them compatible with your requests,” he says. However, the telegram says he received only “about 10 content” from the Revenge Manual, “All of them were removed.” Mortimer has not yet answered Wired questions about telegram claims.
Despite the recent updates to the UK’s online safety law, the law enforcement of online abuse is poor. A report in October 2024 at the British -based charity The Cyber HelpPline shows that victims of cybercrime are facing significant obstacles in the abuse report, and justice for online crimes is seven times less than offline crimes.
“There is still a long -standing idea that cybercrime has no real consequences,” says Charlotte Hooper, head of cyber attack, who helps support victims of cybercrime. “But if you look at the sacrificial studies, cybercrime is just as much – if not more – mentally damaged by physical mass.”
A spokesman for the telegram tells Wired that its executives use “custom AI and machine learning tools” to eliminate content that violates the rules of this platform, “including unprofessional pornography and arbitration.”
“As a result of telegram moderation and responses to reports, the presenters eliminate millions of pieces of harmful content every day,” the spokesman said.
Hooper says survivors of digital harassment often change jobs due to online injury, move cities, or even back down public life. Systemic failure to identify these cases as serious offenses allows the perpetrators to continue with immunity.
However, as these networks become more intertwined, social media companies have failed to properly fix gaps in moderation.
Telegram, despite estimating 950 million monthly active users worldwide, claims that under EU digital service law, being eligible as a “very large online platform” and allows it to use specific oversight. . “The telegram takes its responsibilities under DSA seriously and is in touch with the European Commission,” a spokesman said.
In the UK, several civil society groups have expressed concern over the use of large groups of private telegrams that allow 200,000 members. These groups use a hole by exploiting “private” communications to circumvent legal requirements to eliminate illegal content, including intimate non -sensory images.
Without stronger regulations, online abuse continues to evolve, by adapting to new operating systems and escaping the review.
Digital spaces, which mean protecting privacy, are now on its most violations. These networks are not just growing – they are compatible, expanded in operating systems, and learn how to escape responsibility.
