Palabras que hieren: el uso desviado de lenguaje victimizante en las redes sociales

The Internet is usually linked to strongly visual technological expressions. The spectacular nature of the new multimedia expression, supported today by technological artifices previously inconceivable, makes us forget that very often this visual display is oriented to the service of textual discourse. The victimization of speech today fills the Internet with a hurtful and radicalized verbalism, where words kill, steal the spirit and identity of users and disruptively break the communication of the virtual environment. Very often, this harmful language exploits the expressive field of play and free recreational praxis, inducing an incessant virtual noise where victims blur and self-silence their grievances. This is the premise that animates the present analysis where we assume the concern for the victimizing toxicity of e-language. From the foundations of normative improvement, we approach Austin’s speech act theory in the light of functionalist legal-criminal dogmatics. Our application offers us relevant nuances, such as communicative adequacy, the distinction between person and individual, the overcoming of the ontological substrate of crime and the normativization of action and imputation. We do not forget, however, that these are tools: the complex rationality of the normative edifice has its ultimate justification in the priorities of a complex society, among which the security and indemnity of users is inexcusable.