Nowadays, the world is all in and around the digital technology. with no doubts, we all can agree that technology has bought a revolution in our daily activities, but some part of the digital technology is always criticized for being a sprouting platform for sexual abuse and harassment.
The young teenagers, newly introduced to the social media find it as an approachable and facile platform to meet agemates of their interest, totally neglecting the risk factor of their safety and the numerous threats they can face. As a result, harassments and sexual assaults happen, and when the incidents come into light, the technology is blamed and cursed.
Well it is not only the bad about it, technology platforms also allow the victims to raise their voice, bring awareness to the rape culture and stop victim blaming thing by sharing stories of their sufferings. It undoubtedly is a very challenging thing to do, but it definitely helps the world to support the survivor spread the awareness and punish the perpetrators. There are various applications such as Callisto, which is an online sexual assault reporting system which aims at empowering reporting experience for the survivors.
Though digital technology is not a direct answer to the sexual assaults as is the formal justice system, but it definitely helps the survivors to speak up, start and spread their fight and hence massive awareness.
In the end, every effort makes a difference!