Half the world's population - women - have been rendered almost completely unable to access the world's data net. It isn't because of lack of access or availability. It's because no female can login without suffering a nonstop barrage of threats and negative stimulus spam (visual, audio, text, etc.). The onslaught is so terrible that it overwhelms the senses and renders the latest in digital connection technology useless. Older forms of interface are buried, with servers crushed by the bandwidth consumed by spewed hatred.
The source? A small but nigh ubiquitous group of degenerates, comprising only a tiny fraction of the online world, but who sniff out and bombard any who threaten them with ruthless abandon. Filters are developed daily to counter them, but the skill of the degenerates routinely outstrips these defenses. Lacking physical commitments or interests, they have become an all-seeing eye, immune to appeals of logic or decency. They act without structure or purposeful coordination, each one a lone wolf. They are as terrorists with a perfect cell structure: taking down one does nothing to threaten the others.
How would perceptions of the Internet and digital realm change? What would be the response in gender roles? What means might be explored to combat this threat? What policies, both online and physical, be employed?
(Concept inspired by the trolling endured by many women who publish articles online on topics such as comics. Such behavior is unacceptable and harmful to everyone. One way to tackle it is to consider the extreme case, as posited above.)
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