I'm Bridget Todd, and I spent my whole career exploring how marginalized people shape culture.

I used to be on a feminist podcast called Stuff Mom Never Told You.

And before that, I helped activists use the internet to push for social change.

It's been a really exciting time to be organizing online.

We've seen huge movements like Me Too and Black Lives Matter takeoff.

Movements that were largely started and run and shaped by black people, women, and other marginalized voices.

And it got me thinking, when it comes to cool and important ship popping off online, we've always run the show.

Yes, we use the internet to build movements that the kind you're seeing erupt today,

but women, black folks, and other marginalized voices also shape culture, make art and connect

with each other, using tech in ways that have a big impact on the internet culture.

Even from the very beginning, the reason why computers and the internet and tech are everyday

parts of all of our lives is because of the talent and labor of marginalized folks, and today is no different.

So that's why it bums me out to see white tech-dued leaders act like they don't have to be accountable to those very same people.

When their platforms would be nothing without us.

Tech is not neutral.

It's not apolitical.

But this isn't what many important tech leaders would have you believe. Guess what? They're wrong. Framing tech as neutral lets tech

leaders off the hook for the ways that their policies and platforms hurt people, many of whom are

women, black people, and other marginalized voices. For instance, Facebook put out a statement recently, affirming their commitment to Black Lives Matter,

also letting Trump and other sexist and racists misuse their platform in ways that directly harm

those same marginalized communities, while also raking in fistfuls of profit while doing it.

Wondering why we've allowed tech leaders to get away with framing tech as neutral, as their

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