Tackling #harassment and #stalking, both online and offline, is going to be a huge endeavior. The new laws introduced in some countries, like Switzerland, that make these behaviors illegal are a step in the right direction, but the aim isn't to fill jails with #harassers and #stalkers. The aim is to really help educate everyone from 1 to 100 years old about the stakes at play here and how to establish group rules that make it much more difficults for these behaviors to emerge in the first place.

And by strong response, I don't mean some kind of manhunt against #stalkers or #harassers. That could momentarily feel satisfying, but on a larger ethical and social scale, it is just throwing the table upside down and turning perpetrators into victims. What must be targetted is the behavior of #harrassing and #stalking and the circumstances that trigger them and make them possible. We should learn all to recognize the cues that can signal them and act as a group to cut the issue at its roots.