Non it was a service like the others: during The evening edition of the TG1 August 28th, Four journalists have decided to speak firsthanddenouncing the phica.eu site and the sexist violence that surrounded him. Laura Chimenti, Maria Soave, Valentina Bisti and Giorgia Cardinaletti they told theirs experience of victims, After discovering their diffused images online without consensus, often accompanied by sexist and degrading comments.
The Journalists of TG1 against the sixteenth site
Laura Chimenti spoke firmly: «I am also on this site, but you may also be on similar sites. Believe me, It is horrible because we are not objects, we are not bodies to use and humiliate». On the same line, Maria Soave added: “It’s not goliardia, it’s not irony, it’s just violence.” Valentina Bisti denounced the exposure of her body to sexist comments calling it “a very serious gesture”, while Giorgia Cardinaletti has condemned “The logic of the pack” that feeds online. Four different voices, but united by the same awareness: digital violence is real and should never be minimized.
Investigation in progress
The closing of Phica.eu by the Postal Police is only the first step. Now the investigators are working to identify hundreds of users which, in recent years, have Published content or sexist commentseven coming to instigate violence. The complaints multiply, also through collective initiatives promoted by lawyers and associations, while the minister for equal opportunities Eugenia Roccella has promised more effective tools to counter “this third millennium barbarism”. A signal that the battle against digital violence has just begun and that does not only concern known faces, but every woman exposed to the network.
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