Monica Lewinsky
[From article]
“We need a cultural revolution on this matter,” Lewinsky, 41, said, explaining her reason for coming to this French seaside resort, where some of the most powerful advertising and tech leaders are holding their annual conference. “Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop, and it’s time for an intervention on the Internet and in our culture.”
As she takes the stage, her message will get much added muscle.
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Building on her recent TED and Forbes talks, Lewinsky is expected to tackle “the global empathy crisis currently engulfing online media.”
The former White House intern describes herself as “patient zero” in the anti-cyber bullying crisis because of the online cruelty she encountered 17 years ago — when she was just 24.
http://pagesix.com/2015/06/21/monica-lewinskys-anti-bullying-pitch-to-ad-worlds-top-dogs/?_ga=1.159885182.212440808.1402078759
Monica Lewinsky’s anti-bullying pitch to ad world’s top dogs
By Emily Smith
New York Post
Page Six
June 21, 2015 | 1:59pm
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[From article]
After her emotional speech about online abuse at Forbes’s 30 Under 30 Summit six months ago, and her article for Vanity Fair last year, Monica Lewinsky is back in the news with her talk on the subject of shame at TED2015.
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Lewinsky also describes how she may have been one of the first people to have her personal communications– her phone calls with former friend Linda Tripp– widely distributed without her consent. “This was not something that happened with regularity back then in 1998,” she says. “And by ‘this,’ I mean the stealing of people’s private words, actions conversations or photos and then making them public. Public without consent, public without context and public without compassion.”
http://time.com/3751535/monica-lewinsky-ted-talk-i-was-patient-zero-of-internet-shaming/
Monica Lewinsky TED Talk: ‘I was Patient Zero’ of Internet Shaming
Charlotte Alter @charlottealter
March 19, 2015
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