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Absolutely agree.
Big tech does not *get* #consent -- because they can't be bothered & also because many of them don't understand it.
For this awareness month (#SAAM) we would love to see more folks (especially students) learn about consent through the free consent games from our nonprofit's program.
And we would love to see #tech companies understand and respect the meaning of consent.
This resonates: “People are so used to being walked all over by their tech that they're increasingly shocked by boundaries.” 
Of course there's an app for this now. And of course it's made by a guy.
Not saying it's a bad idea, but I'd really like to see the result of a team of women approaching this. Fairly sure having "false accusations" on the list of problems one wants to solve doesn't improve the design of the app. :P
https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/dR20xz/sykepleier-har-laget-app-for-sex-samtykke-noen-har-sammenlignet-det-med-aa-ta-paa-kondom
– Jeg innrømmer at det kan virke litt avtennende, sier…
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@PogoWasRight@infosec.exchangeGoogle Hit With Lawsuit Over Data Collection on School Kids
Nor for nothing, but this is the same issue some parents in Toronto and I tried to raise against Google years ago -- and Google told me that their relationship was with their clients -- the schools -- and the schools consented. It was up to the schools, they claimed, to seek parental consent.
@douglevin @funnymonkey @mkeierleber
#Google #WorkspaceForEducation #EdTech #consent #privacy #dataprotection #k12
Google LLC is unlawfully using its products—ubiquitous…
news.bloomberglaw.comI'm not sure it's fashionable in 2025 to worry about being too reticent in one's courtship practices. In fact, I'm sure it's NOT. Better a "goddamn perfect gentleman" than a douchebag whose name is in the whisper network...
https://www.erosblog.com/2020/03/31/slow-boy/
#Courtship #Seduction #Cartoon #SexToSexty #Humor #MeToo #Consent #Communication #Sex #Dating #FirstDate
There has always been a tension. Good men want to be…
ErosBlogYou have the right to consent to a conversation.
I learned this with my abuser, who didn't think I had this right. I also didn't think I had this right, part of my childhood conditioning, but once I realized I did and started to assert boundaries, I quickly learned that he didn't think I had this right. He accused me of all kinds of things (like abuse, manipulation, avoidance, punishment) when I said things like, "I don't want to talk about this right now. We can discuss it tomorrow when I'm feeling better." I was drinking his kool-aid, so he did manage to pull me back in many times, until I fully absorbed that I DO in fact have the right to withdraw my consent to talk.
You can consent to touch. You can consent to sex. You can consent to being in the presence of someone. You can consent to talk to someone. Anything else is coercion.
If someone does not like you withdrawing consent (for anything), and this is a dealbreaker for them, then the responsible thing for them is to make decisions about their own damn self. Maybe they need more sex, or more talk, or whatever than you can consistently give them. The mature thing is for them to accept the situation and decide their own boundaries. Maybe even, "I need someone who wants the same things I do, so I will find a different relationship." No fuss, no drama.
It's also ok to discuss this with them, not as a threat or as a way to change their behavior, but in order to negotiate the needs of both in the relationship.
That isn't manipulation, so long as you're not trying to *control* someone's behavior... that's just you accepting someone as they are and withdrawing your own consent or setting more distant boundaries of your own.
Ultimately it comes down to: Are you trying to make someone do something or be a way they don't want to be? Or are you accepting themself as they are and making your own choices for your own life?
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@freeschool@qoto.org#STEM skips out #ethics a lot?... And that's why leaders like to use it against people...
Some musing on that... Also to see wht you think as I'm not 100% but pretty sure that's why uncaring people use STEM.
#STEM seems to miss out #ethics completely or skip it it's #importance and #priority since it's not a paid / value / measured thing for the most part and mostly trojan-horse to get the will of those higher up (like old times of war / power in softer ways / economic / adverts etc).
Science, Tech, Engineering, Maths isn't immediately ethical really or have I got that wrong?
Perhaps any #state is still #primitive in this way (and lots of ways) and just using all #geeks and #techies to get what they want... like forever and all-time...
Perhaps I say that since STEM has got so big in itself and it's own thing pumped and focused on by $tate and #Commercialism as it's interest are financial based 
more and more, so $kips ethics according to those that follow the extraction models more than mental #progress and measurement as happiness or #consent #aims #usage #accountability #transparency etc..
#Ethics perhaps is NOT paid for at the end of the day hence a way to measure it's #importance and #priority somewhat down the list or other things first or as a more #scientific way to say / measure it - and why you get terrible admins under leader$ who don't have to answer to anyone.
Your thoughts?
#Porn, #Abortion, #Transrights, #Consent, and the #WarOnDrugs are all the same issue: Who owns your body, you or the state?
@consentgame@games.ngo
How to Blorrble Blobble
A fun & easy way to learn about #consent.
A free browser game to play this April during #SAAM.
https://jag.itch.io/how-to-blorrble-blobble
#indiegame #videogame #colorful #education @gamingagainstv @stopTDV
@consentgame@games.ngo
It's possible to address traumatizing topics without creating #trauma in the process.
Our free game ADRIFT is an example of that. The game is about #consent but is appropriate for all ages. It's a quick game so you can replay it if you don't get each scenario correct on the first try.
It was even re-created for the MOD. museum in Australia.
April is #SAAM.
@publichealth @sociology @psychology @edutooters #games #videogame #indiegame #education #student #NoJoke
@consentgame@games.ngoSome of us just don’t like being touched & that’s ok.
Sound advice here about how to interact with cats. Coincidentally this is Exactly the approach needed by #ActuallyAutistic people like me. And, in my experience, by kids.
I wonder, how is this not obvious to everyone? The answer, I think, is that so many of us learn when we’re young that we’re not entitled to have boundaries. Not entitled to be safe.
Cats can teach us So Much about #consent. We are all entitled to be safe. @actuallyautistic
‘She treats everyone with a deep growl’: can you train an angry cat to be more sociable? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/30/she-treats-everyone-with-a-deep-growl-can-you-train-an-angry-cat-to-be-more-sociable?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
My kitten, Split, is terrified of people and not much…
The GuardianMore claims against the coward #AndrewTate. This abuser should be behind bars for life.
"If you ever betray me you will regret it."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z2e5166eo
#domesticabuse #consent #publichealth @publichealth #misogyny
The lawsuit details an episode in Beverly Hills where…
www.bbc.comHey you, yeah you, website developer.
Look at it.
LOOK AT IT!
It's that simple.
Meeting adjourned.
»#China #bans compulsory #facialrecognition and its use in #privatespaces like #hotelrooms: China has outlawed the use of facial recognition without #consent.« https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/23/asia_tech_news_in_brief/?eicker.news #tech #media
Asia In Brief: PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most…
The Registerhttps://www.europesays.com/1942226/ Israel-Hamas 2025 Symposium – Humanitarian Relief as a Bargaining Chip #ApI #ApIi #ceasefire #civilians #Conflicts #consent #Gaza #GazaStrip #GenevaConventions #Hamas #HumanitarianAid #HumanitarianRelief #icc #idf #Israel #MilitaryNecessity #RosaLenaLauterbach #siege #starvation
@consentgame@games.ngoIceland minister who had a child with a teenager has quit
In Iceland, a 22-year-old counselor at a religious group had sex with a 15 year old student who was attending, leading to childbirth.
Although the age of #consent in Iceland is 15, it is illegal to have sex with a minor if you are their teacher.
That previous counselor had since became Iceland's Minister of Children and has now quit.
Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir had a relationship with a…
www.bbc.comVeteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony #Greenstein, eviscerates the BBCs coverage of the Gaza genocide in his most recent blogpost!
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-1930s-bbc-appeased-and-even_20.html?m=1
“In the 1930s the BBC Appeased and Even Attempted to Justify the Nazi Regime’s Anti-Semitism – Today It Loves Israel and Zionism - Has Anything Changed?”
#Press #UK #BBC #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Bias #Misinformation #Disinformation #Management #Consent #RaffiBerg #InformationWarfare #Propaganda #StateBroadcaster
@consentgame@games.ngo
School is out forever. Time to party! Time to get out and see the world!
Join Eva, Alice, and Joe as they explore the world. Through their travels they learn about consent, different cultures, and themselves.
Crossing Boundaries is an award winning video game about consent.
Free. No ads. No tracking. Rating: 12+
https://jag.itch.io/crossing-boundaries
#consent #videogames #indiegame #publichealth #education #games #itchio @videogames
This is a long shot:
I'm trying to find a #NGO based in #Paris focusing on teen dating violence and/or consent (IPV).
I will be in Paris April 7th & 8th.
I want to briefly meet & share our free resources & let others know about our unique work to help adolescents. (I'm speaking at Games for Health Europe in Eindhoven & returning via Paris.)
I founded a nonprofit org in 2006.
We hope to collaborate with groups in France -- especially while France is working on issues about #consent.
We have an innovative program using prosocial video games to engage young people (11 - 23). We want to find a group in France interested in making these games available in French.
I've been interviewed by France24 about our innovative games about consent.
One of our consent games was made into a lifesize exhibit at a museum in Australia.
We worked with WorldVision to create a game about consent for young people in Vanuatu.
Over 20,000 folks / year learn about consent through our free games.
Please let me know if you have questions -- and please share with groups / instances who might know somebody who knows somebody.
@publichealth @sociology @stopTDV @consentgame @gamingagainstv #help #nonprofit #education #prevention #France #EU #domesticviolence