Name: 【TEDx】Learning from revenge porn: Online rights are human rights | Emma Holten | TEDxDonauinsel
Uploaded: 2016-05-24T23:45:30.000Z
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Hi, I'm the victim of an online consent violation.

Modal verbs - B1

It might seem like a weird wording to you,

Adverbs of degree

but I really hope by the end of this talk

that consent is going to be a central tenet

In 2011, I woke up, and I couldn't enter my email or Facebook.

I realized that I have been a victim of what is right now called revenge porn.

But let's walk through what happened to me.

At some point, a person decides that they will violate my consent.

They break into my email, they steal my private material,

and then a site starts profiting off of it,

all against my consent, most of it illegal.

you might know what I'm talking about is graphic material.

I also thought that this was bad because it was graphic material.

I thought I felt shame and I felt pain, because it was graphic.

that loads of people were publishing graphic material,

were participating in graphic acts, and they were fine.

It was not a problem for them, but it was a problem for me.

I realized that it was a problem because I hadn't consented,

that it was not about the content of the material,

but about the relationship that I had with the material.

This revealed to me some issues with how we talk about consent,

and especially, how we talk about privacy and online rights.

Right now, when we talk about privacy and online rights,

yeah, no one actually really knows what private material is.

Is it our address, is it our name, is it our phone number, what is it?

Governments, journalists all talk about this private material,

because it seems that a lot of people do worry about surveillance,

you've all heard about the NSA, you've all heard about Edward Snowden,

and you've probably heard of people like me.

All these things are related, it all about internet rights.

When we talk about privacy, we put the focus on the nature of the content,

but the problem is, private content is different to everyone.

Everyone has a different relationship with different types of content.

I want to switch our conversation from privacy to consent.

Every individual's right to consent needs to be in focus.

We cannot, from a normative standpoint, say

which type of content should be able to be published,

or surveilled, or taken in, and which shouldn't.

There is no such rule to make that apply to all.

[drawing] a line between public and private material, and saying,

"OK, we decide that you can publish a person's phone number."

a picture of a person without asking them."

Because we all have different relationships to privacy.

We need to put the focus on the individual rights to consent.

There are different reasons why this matters.

The primary one to me is the democratic one,

because who are the people who are victimized,

when we use a norm to define something for everyone?

It is the people who are already on the margins,

It is young women for example, like it was for me,

who live a life with marginalized sexual options.

it's going to be used on the Internet as well.

It is people who are victims of homophobia, or transphobia,

These are the people who need their privacy most.

So when we talk about privacy from a normative standpoint,

what we do is we marginalize people who are already vulnerable,

and we deny rights to the people who need them the most.

and if we do not focus on the individual's right to consent,

we are going to end up reproducing the same systems of oppression

Consent of the individual is a central democratic point of the Internet

and I'm going to tell you, none of us have the right to consent today.

"I want to decide what is collected off from me,

and what I want to decide what is published."

That is what I found out, and it is a democratic problem.

I will never have the right to have those old pictures taken down of me,

because we haven't decided that it's a right yet.

I don't have a right to consent and neither does anyone on earth.

This loose word privacy that none of us really knows what means

has made it extremely difficult for people to relate to these things.

We hear this talk of privacy all the time,

they are looking up your private information,

we find out that the American government can find our metadata,"

- what is metadata, no one really knows -