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Feminist principles of the internet •
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https://feministinternet.org/sites/default/files/Feminist_principles_of_the_internetv2-0.pdf •
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2016 •
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Preamble
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August 26, 2016
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A feminist internet works towards empowering more women and queer persons – in all our
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diversities – to fully enjoy our rights, engage in pleasure and play, and dismantle patriarchy.
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This integrates our different realities, contexts and specificities – including age, disabilities,
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sexualities, gender identities and expressions, socioeconomic locations, political and religious
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beliefs, ethnic origins, and racial markers. The following key principles are critical towards
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realising a feminist internet.
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Access •
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1 Access to the internet •
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A feminist internet starts with enabling more women and queer persons to enjoy universal,
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acceptable, affordable, unconditional, open, meaningful and equal access to the internet.
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2 Access to information •
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We support and protect unrestricted access to information relevant to women and queer
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persons, particularly information on sexual and reproductive health and rights, pleasure, safe
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abortion, access to justice, and LGBTIQ issues. This includes diversity in languages, abilities,
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interests and contexts.
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3 Usage of technology •
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Women and queer persons have the right to code, design, adapt and critically and sustainably
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use ICTs and reclaim technology as a platform for creativity and expression, as well as to
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challenge the cultures of sexism and discrimination in all spaces.
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Movements & public participation •
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4 Resistance •
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The internet is a space where social norms are negotiated, performed and imposed, often in an
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extension of other spaces shaped by patriarchy and heteronormativity. Our struggle for a
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feminist internet is one that forms part of a continuum of our resistance in other spaces, public,
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private and in-between.
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5 Movement building •
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The internet is a transformative political space. It facilitates new forms of citizenship that enable
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individuals to claim, construct and express selves, genders and sexualities. This includes
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connecting across territories, demanding accountability and transparency, and creating
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opportunities for sustained feminist movement building.
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6 Internet governance •
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We believe in challenging the patriarchal spaces and processes that control internet
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governance, as well as putting more feminists and queers at the decision-making tables. We
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want to democratise policy making affecting the internet as well as diffuse ownership of and
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power in global and local networks.
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Economy •
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7. Alternative economies •
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We are committed to interrogating the capitalist logic that drives technology towards further
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privatisation, profit and corporate control. We work to create alternative forms of economic
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power that are grounded in principles of cooperation, solidarity, commons, environmental
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sustainability, and openness.
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8. Free and open source •
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We are committed to creating and experimenting with technology, including digital safety and
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security, and using free/libre and open source software (FLOSS), tools, and platforms.
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Promoting, disseminating, and sharing knowledge about the use of FLOSS is central to our
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praxis.
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Expression •
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9 Amplifying feminist discourse •
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We claim the power of the internet to amplify women’s narratives and lived realities. There is a
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need to resist the state, the religious right and other extremist forces who monopolise
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discourses of morality, while silencing feminist voices and persecuting women’s human rights
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defenders.
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10 Freedom of expression •
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We defend the right to sexual expression as a freedom of expression issue of no less
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importance than political or religious expression. We strongly object to the efforts of state and
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non-state actors to control, surveil, regulate and restrict feminist and queer expression on the
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internet through technology, legislation or violence. We recognise this as part of the larger
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political project of moral policing, censorship, and hierarchisation of citizenship and rights.
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11 Pornography and “harmful content” •
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We recognise that the issue of pornography online has to do with agency, consent, power and
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labour. We reject simple causal linkages made between consumption of pornographic content
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and violence against women. We also reject the use of the umbrella term “harmful content” to
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label expression on female and transgender sexuality. We support reclaiming and creating
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alternative erotic content that resists the mainstream patriarchal gaze and locates women and
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queer persons’ desires at the centre.
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Agency •
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12 Consent •
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We call on the need to build an ethics and politics of consent into the culture, design, policies
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and terms of service of internet platforms. Women’s agency lies in their ability to make informed
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decisions on what aspects of their public or private lives to share online.
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13 Privacy and data •
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We support the right to privacy and to full control over personal data and information online at all
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levels. We reject practices by states and private companies to use data for profit and to
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manipulate behaviour online. Surveillance is the historical tool of patriarchy, used to control and
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restrict women’s bodies, speech and activism. We pay equal attention to surveillance practices
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by individuals, the private sector, the state and non-state actors.
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14 Memory •
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We have the right to exercise and retain control over our personal history and memory on the
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internet. This includes being able to access all our personal data and information online, and to
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be able to exercise control over this data, including knowing who has access to it and under
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what conditions, and the ability to delete it forever.
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15 Anonymity •
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We defend the right to be anonymous and reject all claims to restrict anonymity online.
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Anonymity enables our freedom of expression online, particularly when it comes to breaking
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taboos of sexuality and heteronormativity, experimenting with gender identity, and enabling
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safety for women and queer persons affected by discrimination.
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16 Children and youth •
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We call for the inclusion of the voices and experiences of young people in the decisions made
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about safety and security online and promote their safety, privacy, and access to information.
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We recognise children’s right to healthy emotional and sexual development, which includes the
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right to privacy and access to positive information about sex, gender and sexuality at critical
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times in their lives.
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17 Online violence •
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We call on all internet stakeholders, including internet users, policy makers and the private
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sector, to address the issue of online harassment and technology-related violence. The attacks,
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threats, intimidation and policing experienced by women and queers are real, harmful and
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alarming, and are part of the broader issue of gender-based violence. It is our collective
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responsibility to address and end this.
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