How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control | Ashley Judd

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🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Enough with online hate speech, sexual harassment and threats of violence against women and marginalized groups. It's time to take the global crisis of online abuse seriously. In this searching, powerful talk, Ashley Judd recounts her ongoing experience of being terrorized on social media for her unwavering activism and calls on citizens of the internet, the tech community, law enforcement and legislators to recognize the offline harm of online harassment.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features actor and activist Ashley Judd, recorded live at TED Women, 2016.
0:13.6	This talk contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence. Discretion is advised.
0:21.9	Ashley Judd, stupid fucking slut.
0:26.7	You can't sue someone for calling them a cunt.
0:30.3	If you can't handle the internet, fuck off whore.
0:34.1	I wish Ashley Judd would die a horrible death.
0:37.2	She is the absolute worst. Ashley Judd, die a horrible death. She is the absolute worst.
0:39.6	Ashley Judd, you're the reason.
0:41.2	Women shouldn't vote.
0:43.5	Twisted is such a bad movie.
0:45.8	I don't even want to rape it.
0:49.6	Whatever you do, don't tell Ashley Judd,
0:51.7	she'll die alone with a dried-out vagina.
0:55.7	If I had to fuck an older woman, oh my God, I would fuck the shit out of Ashley Judd.
1:01.9	That bitch is hot A.F.
1:05.0	The unforgivable shit I would do to her.
1:09.9	Online misogyny is a global gender rights tragedy,
1:15.9	and it is imperative that it ends.
1:31.3	Girls and women's voices and our allies voices are constrained in ways that are personally, economically, professionally, and politically damage.
1:38.3	And when we curb abuse, we will expand freedom.
1:43.3	I am a Kentucky basketball fan, so on a fine March day last year, we will expand freedom.
1:46.4	I am a Kentucky basketball fan,
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