THD wrote:
Hi, Everyone,
Yesterday, one guy registered an offensive username, "Rape XXX" (XXX is a
female wikipedian's name in real life, but I want to kept the victim
anonymous here) in Chinese Wikipedia, and this guy left a message on the
female's user talk page: "You are in my sexual fantasy. Are you a virgin?"
I
was furious about this guy's action and sexual harassment speech. I have
blocked this id forever, and I also suggested the female user to report to
police office. I want to know is there any policy on this issue? In this
kind of situation, will the Foundation cooperate with different countries'
police authority, and reveal the user log record to the authority?
Thanks.
THD
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In the United States, sexual harassment and sexually hostile work
environment claims require that:
1. The company/organization have more than 15 employees or its exempt
from compliance with Federal EEOC Laws.
2. The subject of the harassment must be an employee who reports to the
person doing the harassment.
3. Any employee, irregardless of reporting structure can make claims of
sexually hostile work environment, but the damages
are a lot less.
4. Damages are statutory for sexual harassment claims.
An online forum cannot make claims of sexual harassment or enforce such
claims. If anything, its a violation of site policy and may
qualify as stalking or obscenity, but its not sexual harassment under US
Law.
Jeff