Deja Foxx

And so they're proving concept that there's a different way to govern online.

I believe in the promise of the internet. And I'm asking you to join my generation to fight for it. Let's build our digital future together. Thank you. That was Deja Fox speaking at TED 2025.

And, you know, it'll never not be astounding to me that we let these tech bros write these community guidelines about whose bodies get to show up where and how we get to talk and what counts as hate speech, effectively legislating for a billion people around the world, even though they are unelected and unaccountable.

That's a good question.

And I actually think what we need to do first is get people into office who understand how these platforms work.

Oh, yeah.

No, I've watched those hearings.

Take it all the way back, right?

Yeah.

And so this is actually part of why I've raised my own head up to run for office.

Like, I have been the victim of digital violence on the other end of cyber mob.

And that's something…

that affects who gets to participate in our political process, right?

When 39% of U.S.

adults under 30 are getting their news on TikTok, if someone like me is intimidated out of it and platforms don't stand up for me, right, don't have clear protections against that harassment, then we will have a different political ecosystem in five years.

We already do than five years ago.

And so—

I think absolutely there's legislation here.

But I think the first step is, unfortunately, that we need to get people in power who understand the urgency of the issue.

Yeah.