<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occasionally Coherent]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://blog.bimajority.org]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Garrett Wollman]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://blog.bimajority.org/author/garrettwollman/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Consent, real and imagined, in the technology&nbsp;industry]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Everyone must read this article from <cite>ModelViewCulture</cite>: Betsy Haibel (2014-04-28), <a href="http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-fantasy-and-abuse-of-the-manipulable-user">&#8220;The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User&#8221;</a></p>
<p>A few representative quotations:</p>
<blockquote><p>Another mechanism behind rape culture is the belief that sexual consent and non-consent exist on a different plane than violation of non-sexual boundaries. But in a consent culture, all individuals have the inalienable right to determine their own boundaries in all situations &#8211; and to change those boundaries for any reason at any time. In a consent culture, making assumptions about an individual’s boundaries is anathema. Building a consent culture is about more than sexual activity &#8211; it needs to pervade every aspect of our lives&#8230; including the parts of it that happen online.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Rollouts like [Twitter&#8217;s introduction of photo tagging] that opt users into features tend to damage users unevenly; the less technical are the most affected, and users from marginalized communities are the most likely to be endangered by violations of their privacy &#8211; think of queer people who are outed to homophobic employers by accidentally-publicized Facebook photos, or stalking targets who need to lock down information about their physical location.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>People’s natural desire to be in contact with their loved ones becomes a form of social coercion that keeps them on platforms they’d rather depart.</p></blockquote>
<p>Go read <a href="http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-fantasy-and-abuse-of-the-manipulable-user">the whole thing</a> now.</p>
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