Name: 【TED】Yasmin Green: How technology can fight extremism and online harassment (How technology can fight extremism and online harassment | Yasmin Green)
Uploaded: 2018-06-27T16:03:36.000Z
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My relationship with the internet reminds me of the setup

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You know, the blissfully happy family moves in to their perfect new home,

and it's sunny outside and the birds are chirping ...

And we realize that that perfect new house isn't so perfect.

When I started working at Google in 2006,

And I was in absolute awe of the internet and all of its promise

But as we were doing the inspiring work of building search engines

and video-sharing sites and social networks,

criminals, dictators and terrorists were figuring out

how to use those same platforms against us.

And we didn't have the foresight to stop them.

Over the last few years, geopolitical forces have come online to wreak havoc.

Google supported a few colleagues and me to set up a new group called Jigsaw,

with a mandate to make people safer from threats like violent extremism,

threats that feel very personal to me because I was born in Iran,

and I left in the aftermath of a violent revolution.

But I've come to realize that even if we had all of the resources

of all of the technology companies in the world,

if we overlooked one critical ingredient:

the human experiences of the victims and perpetrators of those threats.

There are many challenges I could talk to you about today.

So in order to understand the radicalization process,

we met with dozens of former members of violent extremist groups.

who had been taken off of a plane at London Heathrow

as she was trying to make her way to Syria to join ISIS.

So I sat down with her and her father, and I said, "Why?"

"I was looking at pictures of what life is like in Syria,

and I thought I was going to go and live in the Islamic Disney World."

She thought she'd meet and marry a jihadi Brad Pitt

and go shopping in the mall all day and live happily ever after.

and they carefully craft a message for each audience.

they translate their marketing material into.

They make pamphlets, radio shows and videos

but German, Russian, French, Turkish, Kurdish,

I've even seen an ISIS-produced video in sign language.

to ensure their message is reaching the deaf and hard of hearing.

that is the reason why ISIS wins hearts and minds.

It's their insight into the prejudices, the vulnerabilities, the desires

for the online platforms to focus on removing recruiting material.

If we want to have a shot at building meaningful technology

we have to start with the human journey at its core.

to speak to young men who'd bought into ISIS's promise

after they witnessed the brutality of ISIS's rule.

And I'm sitting there in this makeshift prison in the north of Iraq

with this 23-year-old who had actually trained as a suicide bomber

and immediately, I had two of my prized possessions confiscated:

The symbols of his physical and digital liberty

And then this is the way he described that moment of loss to me.

when Jerry wants to escape, and then Tom locks the door

and you see it bulging out of his throat as it travels down?"

And of course, I really could see the image that he was describing,

and I really did connect with the feeling that he was trying to convey,

What, if anything, could have changed his mind

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