Digital Discrimination Quotes

I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

I think the Internet has given rise to voices that want to attack others.

When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could make the argument that's inciting violence.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do, and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about 'this is what's happening to the blogosphere.'

Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber-bullying.

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

I'm speaking out against social media bias.

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

It's been hard being on the Internet and not being respected by people in Hollywood.

Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don't hesitate to report and block.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that's completely misguided.

The real question is whether or not the communities that rule the Internet can make their spaces safer for users, especially women and minorities.

There's a reason that male golfers don't compete against female golfers. They're in a league of their own, and it would end in tears. It's time to apply this logic to the online world.

Online hate needs to be taken as seriously as offline hate - but it isn't.

The real election meddling is by Facebook and Google and others that are shadow-banning people.

There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.

The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination. We shouldn't be begging for Facebook's endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg's promises of self-regulation.