If someone is criticized for their public actions or speech, that is not "harassment": that is criticism.
Examples of harassment would include, e.g., becoming the target of on-line mobbing by hundreds of philosophers; being targetted with verbal abuse, such as obscenities, sexual or sexist remarks, racist or other ethnic slurs, and other derogatory epithets; being framed for or falsely impliciated in wrongful or criminal acts; receiving death wishes ("I can't wait until you're dead") or threats of death or violence ("You better watch your back, we're gonna get you").
I have been harassed in all these ways, and others, and I am not alone in having been so harassed. To the other victims of actual harassment, my sympathies. To those confusing criticism with harassment: grow up! Criticism will continue.
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