There Are No Girls on the Internet - June 26, 2020


Introducingļ¼š There Are No Girls on the Internet

Jeffrery Epstein, MIT and the Grad Student Who Spoke Up

Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

151.56

Word count

647

Sentence count

41

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

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Toxicity

4

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Hate speech

1

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Transcript

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00:00:00.620 I'm Bridget Todd, and I've spent my whole career exploring how marginalized people shape
00:00:04.900 culture. 0.56
00:00:05.860 I used to be on a feminist podcast called Stuff Mom Never Told You. 1.00
00:00:09.460 And before that, I helped activists use the internet to push for social change.
00:00:13.240 It's been a really exciting time to be organizing online.
00:00:16.180 We've seen huge movements like Me Too and Black Lives Matter take off.
00:00:19.840 Movements that were largely started and run and shaped by black people, women, and other
00:00:24.300 marginalized voices.
00:00:25.680 And it got me thinking. 0.97
00:00:27.100 When it comes to cool and important shit popping off online, we've always run the show. 0.65
00:00:31.980 Yes, we use the internet to build movements, like the kind you're seeing erupt today. 0.96
00:00:35.760 But women, black folks, and other marginalized voices also shape culture, make art, and connect with each other,
00:00:42.040 using tech in ways that have a big impact on internet culture.
00:00:48.360 Even from the very beginning, the reason why computers and the internet and tech are everyday parts of all of our lives
00:00:54.140 is because of the talent and labor of marginalized folks,
00:00:57.120 and today is no different.
00:00:58.680 So that's why it bums me out to see white tech dude leaders
00:01:01.540 act like they don't have to be accountable to those very same people,
00:01:05.160 when their platforms would be nothing without us.
00:01:07.800 Tech is not neutral.
00:01:09.400 It's not apolitical.
00:01:10.520 But this isn't what many important tech leaders would have you believe.
00:01:13.840 Guess what?
00:01:14.640 They're wrong.
00:01:17.220 Framing tech as neutral lets tech leaders off the hook
00:01:20.020 for the ways that their policies and platforms hurt people,
00:01:22.780 many of whom are women, black people, and other marginalized voices.
00:01:26.600 For instance, Facebook put out a statement recently affirming their commitment to Black Lives Matter, 0.86
00:01:32.140 also letting Trump and other sexists and racists misuse their platform
00:01:35.880 in ways that directly harm those same marginalized communities,
00:01:39.800 while also raking in fistfuls of profit while doing it.
00:01:43.100 Wondering why we've allowed tech leaders to get away with framing tech as neutral
00:01:46.500 as their policies harm our communities?
00:01:48.900 Well, just take a look at who feels at home in the tech space and online.
00:01:52.640 By buying into the idea that tech and the internet are not our domain, 0.99
00:01:56.420 we've let white male tech leaders dominate the conversation 0.99
00:01:59.740 in a space where our voices should be the loudest.
00:02:05.140 I want to change this.
00:02:07.140 Okay, but how?
00:02:08.600 It's kind of a lot, so buckle up.
00:02:13.560 I want to bust the myth that the only voices that matter in tech belong to white men.
00:02:18.040 I want to bust the myth that women and marginalized voices
00:02:24.220 weren't always at the ground floor of technology 1.00
00:02:26.540 and the way it unpacks our culture.
00:02:28.280 We were, so we should have a bigger voice.
00:02:30.760 I want to amplify the stories that traditional conversations
00:02:33.200 around tech and the internet leave out,
00:02:35.220 both from history and today.
00:02:37.600 Tech is more than it's people who make things with code.
00:02:40.120 It's the artists, organizers, writers, movement builders.
00:02:43.640 It's people who are doing work that is traditionally associated
00:02:46.160 with women and marginalized voices,
00:02:47.800 so unfortunately, that work goes overlooked.
00:02:50.520 I want to demystify conversations
00:02:52.460 about the internet and tech so that you,
00:02:54.540 yes, you, feel like you're entitled
00:02:56.880 to take up space in these conversations.
00:02:59.200 You may not be a tech pro,
00:03:00.540 but if you're listening to this podcast,
00:03:02.320 it's likely that you use the internet every single day.
00:03:06.040 And whether tech leaders want to admit it or not,
00:03:08.320 technology and the internet would be nothing without us.
00:03:11.580 Tech is nothing without its users,
00:03:12.940 so why shouldn't we have a bigger voice?
00:03:14.940 So are you with me?
00:03:16.160 We need monuments to all the ways that marginalized voices have shaped what it means to be online.
00:03:21.020 So let's build them.
00:03:23.040 Subscribe to There Are No Girls on the Internet, dropping on iHeartRadio on July 7. 0.96
00:03:46.160 We'll be right back.