JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE RESEARCH 19 Figure 7. Circa 2015 & 2016. Source: Author’s files. Organization (MIDO), for example, found that 58 per cent of all female respondents had experienced online abuse in the previous 12 months.85 “The vast majority of both adults and young people believed that young people are not safe online, given the prevalence of online threats such as scams, hacking and harassment,” concluded another study, jointly conducted by Save the Children and the University of Sydney, which also found that sexual harassment of girls was the single most common concern for young people.86 Both studies noted that one of the most prevalent forms of harassment was the use of personal images to shame or coerce, often via images already posted to Facebook or photographs taken surreptitiously.87 A final example illustrates how Facebook could be used in concert with other strat­ egies, as well as how it could transform these strategies into warnings for larger audi­ ences. In 2015, three peace activists, two Muslim and one Hindu, were arrested for 85 86 87 LIRNE Asia and MIDO, “Online Abuse in Myanmar,” 2018, 3. Ridout et al., Mobile Myanmar, 7, 96; see also Phandeeyar, Hate Speech Lexicon Research, 22–3; Phyu Phyu Kyaw, “The Rise of Online Censorship and Surveillance in Myanmar: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study” (Open Technology Fund, November 2020), 23–5; Thant Sin Oo, Ye Min Thant, and McKay, Exploring Digital & Mobile Cultures in Myanmar 2019, 39–41. Ridout et al., Mobile Myanmar, 71; LIRNE Asia and MIDO, “Online Abuse in Myanmar,” 5; see also Ei Cherry Aung, “As Tech Spreads, Myanmar Women Become Victims of ‘Revenge Porn’,” Myanmar Times, 5 October 2016.

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