Deja Foxx

And so somewhere like Sunroom, they've responded by having content moderation done through a woman's lens, right?

Or zero tolerance for harassment and hate speech.

And something I think we'll probably get to later, but I'd like to touch on is that being a woman online is scary.

It is hard.

There are new kinds of digital violence, gender-based violence, that have been made possible because of these platforms, whether it's something like doxing or deepfakes, which absolutely has to do with the conversation around AI and women's rights and who gets to take up space in our public square.

We should not be forced to participate in hate-for-profit business models just to participate in that public discourse. This year alone, we've seen migrations from TikTok to Red Note, Twitter to Blue Sky. As entrenched as the current platforms may seem, they're not permanent. These social media platforms

jotka vaikuttavat kaupungin poliitikkoihin, koko ekonomiin, ovat yleensä vanhempia kuin minä. Ja minä olin luonut vuoteen 2000. Ei kuitenkaan, että moni vanhempi, joka niitä edustoi, oli myös vanhempi kuin minä. Ja Facebookin tapauksessa, ainakin Facebookin perusteella, hän oli enemmän kiinnostunut rajoittamaan vanhempia koulutuksia, kuin demokratisoimaan, kuka saattaa osallistua poliittiseen ja yleisön keskusteluun.

Yeah.

What I think is interesting about the examples I raise in the talk is that they really are thinking about new models of ownership and control.

Okay.

Which I actually think, to expand it out and not to be too woo-woo, that if we can model a kind of like matriarchal, community-owned digital world, it might just spark a different kind of world in our real lives, too.

Yeah.

I think about something like Archive of Our Own, which was founded in 2008, so not exactly part of this new wave of builders.

I stand in front of you today because of the internet. The college essay that I wrote on my phone earned me a place at my dream university on a full ride, the first of my family to go to college. A DM, a direct message on Instagram, led to a job on a history-making presidential campaign. And the following that I have built online has turned into the support I needed to launch my very first run for office.

And I know the fangirls out there are like, yeah, Archive of Our Own, put that on, mention it.

It's where, you know, all these fan works are hosted, and it supports a user base of 8 million people.

Many girls my age will tell you that that's like where they found the internet for the first time anyway, was through these fan works.

But their structure is nonprofit, noncommercial.

Yeah.

They are run by an elected board, and they're completely volunteer run.