Technology systems inherit and reflect the values of their creators, serving to normalize pre-existing social attitudes. While digital platforms allow greater control and surveillance, freedom of expression requires protecting offensive speech. The document discusses how technology can enhance social biases like slut shaming through values embedded in technological systems from their earliest conceptions.

1. Technology
and
Slut Shaming
Mathias Klang
@klang67

2. Technology is not
misogynistic

3. Technological
systems are
embedded with
values

4. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

5. Technology
enhances
pre-existing
values

6. Normalizing the abnormal

7. Performance lifestyle

8. Control in
digital world
Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world

9. What is freedom of
expression?
Without the
freedom to offend,
it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie

10. THANKS!

11. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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