Technology-based Abuse

I came upon this fascinating article that deals with how intimate partner violence, stalking, and technology-based abuse intersect more and more as online surveillance has become more easily accessible to everyone.

The subject of technology-based abuse is also relevant to non-partner-related gang-stalking because the methods of technology-based abuse used by gang-stalkers and a former intimate partner are the same.

Technology-based Abuse Represents a Serious, Possibly Mortal Danger to Stalking Victims

Today’s technology and surveillance equipment give even retards the opportunity to surveil their victims 24/7 – online, in their cars, in their beds- and bathrooms. As long as the stalkers have a credit card and internet access or know people who have access to surveillance equipment and the skills to enter people’s homes – e.g., police and private security firms - surveilling others 24/7 is possible for even the dumbest of criminals.

That is the world we live in.

Having endured nine years of gang-stalking, it is clear to me that technology-based abuse represents a danger to stalking victims. Technology-based abuse allows stalkers full access to every part of the victim’s life, including the opportunity to observe people in their homes and intimidate them with various techniques that are invisible to the naked eye, e.g., sounds. This extreme access reinforces the objectification of the victim, I believe.

Humans Love Screens

It is evident that humans love screens; we love to watch, dream, imagine, get absorbed in, and possibly believe what we see. And when we watch, we can objectify and pretend to know or possess what we see on the screen.

Therefore, what screens deliver may lead to extreme needs, opinions, behavior, and even crimes if you are a bad person, for lack of a better term, unlike the rest of us who just squander our time in a strictly platonic, one-way-only relationship with Brad Pitt for over 30 years.

Joking aside, human beings are visual creatures who objectify what they see – we are the subjects of our own lives; what we see is not. Combine that with technology-based abuse, and you have a situation that could present an extreme and possibly mortal danger to stalking victims.

“Earlier conceptualizations of technology-based abuse have given less attention to humiliation; that is, one partner publishing information online with the intent of hurting the other partner. … In addition to inflicting immediate pain on the victim, with this form of abuse, the perpetrator shows disregard for potential long-term damage. Attention should be directed towards understanding both the perpetration and consequences of acts of humiliation used to control a partner or as an act of revenge, as well as the use of social media to maintain control over a couple’s public image … across different measurement and sampling strategies, survivors of IPV commonly experience direct stalking and technology-based stalking and harassment as a part of the pattern of coercive control. Research should continue to examine these forms of abuse and consider the relationship of technology-based abuse with risk for future violence and homicide.”

Messing, J., Bagwell-Gray, M., Brown, M.L. et al. Intersections of Stalking and Technology-Based Abuse: Emerging Definitions, Conceptualization, and Measurement. J Fam Viol 35, 693–704 (2020).

Technology-based Abuse Reduces Victims to Objects

What we see on screens, we objectify. It is an object we are looking at. And we control it as much as we can, turning the screen on and off as we please. The object on the screen is ours for as long as we observe it.

If it is a person, such as a character in a movie, we can judge as we please – they are ugly, stupid, hot, dumb, annoying – without consequences; and we can do so too with non-fictional beings on our screens, like a YouTuber. We may even interact with comments.

To gang stalkers, their target is an object, a thing, and sometimes a thing on a screen, that they observe and control. It is an absolute dehumanization of a human being, and it has extreme consequences for the target.

The monsters that have been violating every aspect of my life for the past nine years do not see me as a human being. Judging by their statements, I am a thing, an animal on a screen in their group fantasy, a reality they control. And I was supposed to have died long ago.

Technology-based abuse is more than GPS-tracking and cyberstalking; it is reducing victims to objects in a game psychopaths play.

Hate Changes a Person

However, no matter what a bunch of Danes want, I am still alive and plan to stay that way. I do have injuries, but I am learning to live with those. However, I am in hate with the Danish state, and maybe that is worse than any physical injury.

To begin with, I hated Funen Police (Fyns Politi), the prosecutors, and the group – a citizen militia of scumbags from Region Southern Denmark, and their kids. Today, I hate the Danish state and system; I fertilize on this hate every day; it keeps me strong, but it has changed my life more than any injury ever will.

The person I was before the citizen militia and its minions were de facto permitted by Funen Police (Fyns Politi) to steal and crush my life has changed fundamentally. I am still me, though; I’m tired, but I remain the same optimistic person who loves life, but I no longer need humans in my life, nor do I trust them. And I don’t want to be responsible for another life again.

So, despite my love of dogs, I don’t want another dog in my life – I would always be afraid that someone would poison my fur baby.

You can find links to articles about stalking here.

On that note, until next time, remember to get your facts straight and be happy that whatever good times you have won’t come back as bad times!