“The Attorneys General - mostly angry at me and other researchers - have spent considerable time trying to publicly reject the ISTTF report that was published last month,” writes danah boyd. That is, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s findings are being combated not with alternate findings, but with PR, like Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s latest media moment concerning the deletion of over 90,000 “sex offenders” from MySpace. Writes boyd, “We see a number like 90,000 and expect that it’s high and outrageous. But it is not more than would be expected by statistical patterns. And it’s not an automatic indicator of a problem.”
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Ill-gotten Praise
- "Melissa Gira is the sex writer of the future. Her smart, savvy writing moves your mind." - Susannah Breslin
- "Fabulous, super-smart." - Rachel Kramer Bussel
- "Her passion and creativity about sex work, the internet, and writing makes me want to work all the harder." - Audacia Ray
Links
- Laura Agustin / Border thinking
- Ars Technica
- Kate Bornstein
- Bookkake Blog
- Bound, not Gagged
- Susie Bright
- Center for Sex & Culture
- Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon
- Coilhouse
- Heather Corinna / Femmerotic
- Lena Chen / Sex and the Ivy
- Clayton Cubitt / The Constant Siege
- Debauchette
- Maria Diaz / one sharp broad
- Fimoculous
- Gina de Vries / queershoulder
- Genderfork
- Information Aesthetics
- Jezebel
- La Petite Claudine
- The Midwest Teen Sex Show
- Debbie Nathan
- Techspolitation / Annalee Newitz
- Open the Future
- Tracy Quan / Jet-setting callgirl
- Audacia Ray / Waking Vixen
- Rhizome
- Amber Rhea
- Bonnie Ruberg / Heroine Sheik
- sexuality.about.com
- Sex & Blogs
- Sex, Art, and Politics
- Sex in the Public Square
- The Sex Carnival
- Shameless
- Caty Simon / marginalutility
- $pread
- Synthetic Pubes
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
- The Rumpus
- This Recording
- Tomorrow Museum
- Voices of American Sexuality
- We Make Money Not Art
- worship the glitch JoAnn Wypijewski / The Nation