Don't feed the trolls - Fight them

Maia Kahlke Lorent­zen | TEDx­Co­pen­ha­gen

“Don’t feed the trolls” is a common thing to say when people complain about these pesky inter­net crea­tu­res. But as inter­net­tro­lling is incre­a­singly taking the forms of orga­ni­sed cyber­ha­rass­ment, igno­ring them is not an option. In her talk, Maia explains how online harass­ment thre­a­tens free­dom of speech and has a few sugges­ti­ons on what *you* should do, when you meet trolls in the digi­tal forests. Maia is an author, tech-acti­vist and stra­te­gic advi­sor living and working in Denmark, Copen­ha­gen. She works with the network Cyber­nau­terne to teach cyber­se­cu­rity and digi­tal litte­racy, and she’s a foun­der of the tech-acti­vist collec­tive DO:TOPIA. Her work focu­ses on online harass­ment and trolling on social media, and their effects on public discourse. She publis­hed the book «Can trolls be tamed?» in Danish in the spring 2019. She also rese­ar­ches and spre­ads aware­ness on inter­net subcul­tu­res and online extre­mism. Maia has a back­ground in the non-profit world, having worked as a digi­tal stra­te­gist for Green­pe­ace and Amnesty Inter­na­ti­o­nal. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED confe­rence format but inde­pen­dently orga­ni­zed by a local commu­nity. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

She is also part of Cyber­nau­terne