Nadine introduced the problem of the internet in Lebanon very well. She stated that most of the information on the internet was from fundamentalists. This obviously creates a bias of gender issues.
What I found most interesting is that the issues are also applied here, much on the web is based on the male perspective and is derogatory towards women. For example, a person just started following me on Tumblr and his name was "iporkedyourmom". That's just ugh. It kind of made me angry because it is derogatory and people think it is funny. It's not. What people don't understand that much of that humor is all though out our internet and our pop culture. Funny, no. Offensive, yes. Humor like this helps nothing, and it is unnecessary, to think it is appropriate is saying that you approve of objectify women.
Nadine explained 'filtering' the internet. She explained that Lebanon government does not censor the internet, but institutions do. (Which makes it male dominate.) Women and low class do not have access to the internet, so they have to go to 'unsafe' places to get it. So not only does the internet have a bias but it is not accessible for all.
Overall, I did not understand what the point of this video was. It made me think of the possible biases of the places I look at the internet has. She did not give me any ideas of how to fix this problem, however, except to think critically when looking at sites. (Which most of the time, I already do.)
Her video, also, is probably not going to reach a lot of women who are using the internet for the first time in Lebanon because the connection is too slow to play it, so they probably will not know that the internet they are looking at is censored, bias and promotes violence against women.
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