We don't talk anywhere near enough about how the tech industry is fucking with the general public's understanding of consent.
Fairly often I will opt out of something that would have been obviously reasonable a few years ago, and people will look at me like I drove a truck through the room.
Things like:
- I won't be appearing on camera today
- I don't wish to speak on a recording to be published on the University website
- I won't be giving my personal details to an overseas third party just to use a notepad tool in one meeting
I see this seeping through into attitudes about consent in other everyday life contexts. People are so used to being walked all over by their tech that they're increasingly shocked by boundaries.
Agreed, but we are dealing with two generations (wrong term there I know) pretty much, one is born just before or since facebook, google, et al took over the internet, those people see sharing data and information as normal.
Those of us who used the internet prior to 2000 so 1990s remember a much simpler model where websites provided information, adverts were more banners on web pages etc.
To todays young people the internet is something they have grown up wtih since birth. But it seems big tech IS the internet.
On consent, we are not talking to children about how consent applies to sex, and our right to say no, which means no. A lot of children don't fully understand the word no.
There is a link between what people see online and how people behave, could be a reason behind toxic masculimity.
