Status of Women committee  Sorry. I know.

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much.

Status of Women committee  Okay. I didn't want to just hang up on you. Thank you very much for having me today.

Status of Women committee  We get a lot of people asking us what to do about it and how to deal with the problem. Whether you're a politician, a writer, a scientist, or an economist, when a man wants to shut you down, very often he will send pornography and he will send pornography that is explicit and violent.

Status of Women committee  Algorithms are really already part of the fabric of our lives in ways we don't really think about or appreciate. A lot of people think of them as neutral. Algorithms are machines. They learn. They don't have opinions, but what algorithms actually do is end up reproducing and amplifying biases that we know exist in the systems and that people have.

Status of Women committee  There are a couple of things. One is that for the last two years I have immersed myself, for good or bad, in studying the effects of pornography, particularly on children and teenagers. As far as I can tell, and I think it's safe to say—I've probably read over 300 studies in the last year—there is nothing conclusive about that.

Status of Women committee  There are a couple of things. When I refer to the eroticization of male violence, I think very specifically about the way that pornography is used to silence women who espouse feminist perspectives and progressive politics. There is the content of the pornography itself, which very often does exactly that, right?

Status of Women committee  I want to go up to the 100-mile mark. What's happening in games right now in terms of representation is fundamentally no different from what happens on television or in books. We know that these gender and racial imbalances already exist. The majority of children's books feature young white boys as protagonists.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I have looked at the demographics of those who are perpetrators. I'll focus just on crime and what's already considered a crime. This varies in multiple jurisdictions all over the world, but we're increasingly recognizing the effects of non-consensual sexualization in pornography.

Status of Women committee  For trafficked girls?

Status of Women committee  Well, that's not a quick or easy question. I actually would need to think about that. I don't have a quick solution. I think it's very important to listen to the girls themselves.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Do you mean how often does that happen?

Status of Women committee  There's no measurement for how often that happens.