Digital harassment

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The term digital harassment is often used to refer to software enforced social policies. Traditionally social policies allow for considerable leeway. What they prescribe and how they are executed exhibits a natural disparity. In social systems that are exclusively mediated by software this disparity vanishes. The policy of the software is often strictly applied to the social interactions of the particular members. Digital Harassment results from digital policies that are formulated as if they were traditional policies. The fact that they lack any leeway in their implemented form often leads to bizarre forms of over-regulation and restrictions in civil liberties.