Status of Women committee  Matthew will go first.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to be here. My remarks are going to focus on cyberviolence against girls and young women, although, as will become obvious as I proceed, in the seamlessly integrated online/offline world that is inhabited by young people today, distinctions be

Status of Women committee  First, MediaSmarts' results with respect to the sharing of images were obviously reflective of a widespread study. There's also data with respect to women showing that, in one study, 90% of those who had complained of non-consensual distribution were women. I think the jury is st

Status of Women committee  I think there are two things. We have to teach girls that it's okay to want to have sex and to be sexual, because it is. Also, we have to teach boys that there needs to be respect for the sexual autonomy of others. Maybe there are three things. The third thing is that we have t

Status of Women committee  This is one of the questions for the eQuality Project. One way we are doing that is to have a partnership, and our partnership includes an organization whose community of service is family. It's the Vanier Institute for the Family. This is a partnership that's trying to forge li

Status of Women committee  That's always my worry and that's why I talked about cyberbullying first. You could say that about a lot of words and phrases that we use, but I don't think of intersectionality in that category at all. Finding solutions that are workable for people depends on knowing what thei

Status of Women committee  Let's start today.

Status of Women committee  Here's the thing. Apart from discrimination, discrimination, discrimination, equality, I really think that we have treated corporate enterprises in the online environment with a set of kid gloves and allowed them to make a lot of decisions very privately that have a huge impact o

Status of Women committee  I'd like to echo that last statement and say that having organizations that deal with violence against women is critical. Studies have shown that having strong feminist grassroots organizations is critical to women's equality. Those organizations, particularly those working in th

Status of Women committee  Even in looking at the criminal case law, research is showing that technologically facilitated violence is creeping in. Technologically facilitated violence by itself is prosecuted relatively infrequently. It's often encased in a situation of relationship abuse or domestic abuse,

Status of Women committee  We always have to be cautious of restorative justice approaches in the context of abuses of power, where there is a power imbalance and violence is perpetrated against women because they're women. I understand why that concern was raised. It's not to say that it doesn't work; i

Status of Women committee  Years ago, Catharine MacKinnon was involved in the porn wars, but no one at the time could have predicted the extent of the infiltration of sexualized violence across culture. Rape culture, I think, is what Professor Shariff is talking about—the equation of sex and violence. It's

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for inviting me back. I understand that today one of the things we've been asked to focus on is this notion of algorithmic curation. I'm making these remarks as the co-leader of the eQuality Project, which is a project that in fact is focused on the big data

Status of Women committee  There are models in the EU in particular, in the EU directives around data privacy, that focus more on bringing human decision-making into the loop. Where a decision is made that affects someone's life chances, for example, there needs to be some sort of human element in the dete

Status of Women committee  It could be that some do that. In other words, they close our circle instead of opening our circle. In some cases, people who look at this may say, well, that's an advantage, because if I don't want to see hate speech, I don't have to see hate speech. But let's take Twitter's m