In this article, Melissa King writes about content moderation online, such as block and ignoring, trigger warnings, and privacy options. King states that content control faces “constant cultural opposition”, although using these tools is completely acceptable and useful to many.

May people disagree with the use of content control because they believe that people “blow the abuse and harassment they receive out of proportion” and that content control use is an overreaction. People also believe that when being cyber bullied, harassment stops on the internet and that internet bullies do not pose any real threat to someone’s safety and wellbeing, which is untrue in multiple cases.

In the past few years, tools like blocklists have risen in numbers because of the rise of bullying over the internet, which in certain cases can cause things such as anxiety or PTSD. In fact, online harassment is one of the major causes of PTSD. Women are more likely to be victims to this type of abuse than, more specifically women who are present in male dominated areas of work.

The internet and technology use today has increased greatly from ten or fifteen years ago. With that increase came an increase in cyber bullying and internet harassment. Because of these increases, there has been a rise in the use of content control tools. Even though these problems have increased, many still refuse to see internet bullying as a real issue and deny the usefulness of content control.

King, Melissa. “Better Online living Through Content Moderation.” Model View Culture. Web. 09 March 2016.