{"id":6362,"date":"2021-07-07T08:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T08:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1359563"},"modified":"2021-07-07T08:59:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T08:59:22","slug":"github-shutters-site-auctioning-muslim-women-for-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"GitHub shutters site \u2018auctioning\u2019 Muslim women for online abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F07%2Froman-synkevych-wX2L8L-fGeA-unsplash.jpg&amp;signature=2bb1dbcfe657b0442d211e073185bd40\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week, GitHub took down a hateful site that targeted Muslim women and put them on sale. The website, named Sulli Deals, is a derogatory term used for Muslim women.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter__right\" data-qa=\"message_content\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\" readability=\"8\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>The site first came to notice on Sunday, but there\u2019s no information yet on who made it. The website was active for at least 20 days before it was taken down on Monday, and had photos of more than 90 women on it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.547770700637\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Somebody made an app of &#8216;Sulli Deals&#8217; which has twitter handle of so many Muslim girls. You are one tap away from finding the girl as your deal.<br \/>That app has our pictures and our names.<br \/>The motto of the app says, &#8216;community driven, open source project&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rc2vyynRMy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Rc2vyynRMy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 K (@madeforbrettLEE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madeforbrettLEE\/status\/1411746061513682946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">July 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.596590909091\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Didn&#8217;t check Twitter last night. Woke up this morning to realise my name, along with those of many other Muslim women was up on GitHub as a list of &#8220;Sulli Deals&#8221;. Thankfully by the time I came across it, it had been taken down. But just the screenshots sent shivers down my spine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CGXivEyjyC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/CGXivEyjyC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fatima Khan (@khanthefatima) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khanthefatima\/status\/1411947663818256384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement, GitHub said that its policy bars content that targets a community:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><span>GitHub has&nbsp;<\/span>longstanding policies<span>&nbsp;against content and conduct involving harassment, discrimination, and inciting violence. We suspended user accounts following the investigation of reports of such activity, all of which violate our policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the second incident this year involving targeting Muslim women online before Eid. In May, during Eid-ul-Fitr, a YouTube channel named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newslaundry.com\/2021\/05\/15\/ritesh-jha-aka-liberal-doge-the-man-behind-the-livestream-spewing-hate-against-pakistani-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Liberal Doge<\/a>&nbsp;live-streamed photos of Muslim women while \u2018rating\u2019 and \u2018auctioning them. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newslaundry.com\/2021\/05\/15\/ritesh-jha-aka-liberal-doge-the-man-behind-the-livestream-spewing-hate-against-pakistani-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Newslaundry<\/a> noted, the owner of the channel, Ritesh Jha, also runs other YouTube channels and Telegram groups spreading hate content. There hasn\u2019t been any penal action taken against Jha.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worrisome that this occurrence adds numbers to other similar incidents, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2019\/06\/what-it-means-to-be-an-identifiable-muslim-woman-in-todays-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Muslim women<\/a> \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/remember-gauri-lankesh-rana-ayyub-receives-death-rape-threats-after-posts-on-kashmir\/453884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">journalists<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/nusrat-jahan-gets-death-threats-for-posing-as-durga-seeks-security-1726577-2020-09-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">actors<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/remember-gauri-lankesh-rana-ayyub-receives-death-rape-threats-after-posts-on-kashmir\/453884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">activists<\/a> \u2014 on the South Asian internet have been targeted repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/github-takes-down-hateful-site-muslim-women\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, GitHub took down a hateful site that targeted Muslim women and put them on sale. 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