Deja Foxx

I think some of the attempts have been pretty misguided.

Things like a TikTok ban, right?

They've not landed with young people.

They have been received poorly by the people who they're intended to protect.

And so, again, I think these companies need new regulation, and they're going to come from people in power who truly understand the experience.

Well, one of the reasons that these platforms get away with what they do is because they're massive.

right think about what your facebook is tied to like if you were to delete your facebook

you would no longer have access to a variety of things.

And in some countries, Facebook is synonymous with the internet.

And so what I'm proposing here is not that we should sub this platform for that one, but that we should have a diversified platform ecosystem, right?

That these companies that have essentially— They've gotten too big.

Exactly.

And that we deserve choices about where we get our information, where we build our community—

and that we shouldn't be forced into participating in their hate-for-profit business model, literally to have our voices heard, right?

Like, to just get to have a say.

on politics or to share our perspective or to connect with our friends and family.

It's really about a platform ecosystem that's different and has more choices.

And frankly, that has more women builders.

I fear that we are already in that reality, right?

When you think about what you give any of these platforms when you first sign on, it's probably your birthday, your gender, and your age.