time. as i said before, people of color wouldn t feel great if people came to them and said systemic racism doesn t exist. he seems to be doing a version of that with transgender and gay people in relation the their civil rights struggles and their identity issues. i can see, you know, exactly what you are saying to that point. ashley, time for you to weigh in on this. netflix s co-ceo said they are keeping the special up because it doesn t cause, quote, real-world harm. is chapel s special adversely affecting you. i wouldn t say myself personally, but definitely transpeople who experience socioeconomic disparity because of societal perception of who we are. and their decision as to whether we deserve to occupy space and opportunity. just to be clear, the netflix employment resource group has also not necessarily pushed for the removal of the special. but going forward, they want to be included in a lot of the
i don t know how we are going to manage this is future. but we do have to try harder because this is real. it s affecting the way people live their lives. in a small number of cases it s affecting how people are threatened in the real world, outside the world of online harm. but also it s affecting the health and mental health particularly of our young people who have bullying and oppression online. that does impact them in a very real way, even if it doesn t result in an attack, physical attack offline. the national police chiefs council says the police take all reports of malicious communications seriously and will investigate but must prioritise their finite resources . the main social media companies say they don t promote hate on their platforms and take action to stop it. they each have algorithms that offer us content based on things we ve posted, liked or watched in the past. internet researcher chloe colliver is helping us run an experiment to
into real world harm. the business models, the infrastructure, the design of these platforms is absolutely part of the problem and until that s radically overhauled we re not going to see a resolution on anywhere near the scale that we need to see. they also want governments to take tougher action. in the uk, long awaited online safety legislation is still being discussed. it s expected to say social media companies have a duty of care to their users, and can be fined if they fail to protect them. but there s no specific mention of online hate against women. the uk is looking at a range of regulatory responses. i think that we need to be cautious whenever it comes to regulating speech, but we can no longer afford to use that as justification for sitting back and doing nothing. the 0nline harms bill.
done and done very well. i m getting increasingly concerned about some of the more threatening abuse i receive. the united nations asked over 700 women, mainlyjournalists and some political activists, who are prominent on social media, about their experiences of online hate. they then studied some of the accounts, including mine. this is a word cloud that represents the abuse you have experienced. the bigger the word, the more times it s been directed against you within abusive tweets. and you can see that this is a word cloud full of expletives, full of demeaning comments, full of misogynistic comments, full of sexually explicit comments. but the biggest word that we see is the word liar. one in five of the women who responded to the un survey, say they experienced harm in the real world
and violent threats. the attacks that have come directly to me have been about my politics, some about my physical appearance, a lot has been about the fact that i am gay and a lot of it has been about the fact that i am a woman who has opinions. i m declaring ruth davidson the duly elected leader ruth is the former i m declaring ruth davidson the duly elected leader. ruth is the former leader of the scottish conservatives. she s now out of frontline politics. the one thing i don t miss is the abuse. these are just words, can they really do harm? before social media existed, people could be done for being threatening in the street and real life for some of the things that they said and the hate speech that they had.