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1. What is online harassment?
Online harassment is not defined in UK law, but recognised behaviour includes
offensive, abusive, violent, threatening, racist or explicit online content, which is designed to cause alarm or distress.
For behaviour to constitute "harassment" it must take place on at least two occasions. Generally, a perpetrator’s conduct can be considered "harassment" (rather than being simply unpleasant) where it includes more than one episode of unreasonable and oppressive behaviour which is calculated to result in alarm, fear or
distress to the victim.Online harassment can take place on multiple platforms including email, instant messaging, social media sites, blogs and chat rooms. It often involves bullying or "trolling" an individual or organisation. It can also include identity theft and posting false profiles in an individual’s name. Because online content can go viral very quickly, it is easy for harassment to escalate if you do not take prompt action against it.