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A casual reverse-image search unleashed a nightmarish reality on Noelle Martin when she discovered her face edited into pornographic materials across the internet. Join Martin as she recounts years battling shadowy online figures to reclaim her identity, narrative and peace of mind — and learn how she helped change Australian law. (This talk contains mature content.)
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nice video dude
The internet is NOT private. Period. If you stand on a public corner and do anything then its public knowledge. If you put anything in the public realm then it is what it is. Its not right but its how the world has always worked and will always work.
Her story is raw and absolutely horrible. Eye opening .. But this content is not for me. She’s not well spoken, and doesn’t offer enough new insights to get me past 4:33 which is where I stopped watching and left this comment. I do hope that this issue of female victimization can be addressed because I want to live in a world where no one is that harassed and no one is that desperate.
I think she photoshopped her own pictures just for attention. Jenny Craig doesn’t judge she’ll welcome this woman and her low self esteem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia
Maybe you are the one who edited her photo and uploaded it to various pornographic websites?
4:59 that’s just such an absolutely naive statement
The problem is you expect others to be good, the problems is they aren’t.
Your rights are expected to be upheld by others which means you’re at the mercy of others and that’s not something you always can have.
You need control over your life, if you’re out of control you’re gonna crash, there are certain things you should decide if it’s worth doing or not like posting on social media
I also don’t think this statement should be a reason for social stagnation, we can definitely do better and actually improve as a society but for the individual it’s best to take these advices when society is probably not gonna change for you and the predators hunting you.
Instead of the video, I’m reading the comments 😀
TED TALKS hit a new low I just came online to watch something bioinformatic but this really???
2:26
disagree, you should be allowed to photoshop as much as you want
Ok, Photoshop as much as you want, by DONT and i repeat, DONT spread it through the internet.
I completly agree with averything that she is saying, but the images she posted were a bit odd too…
Please someone explain to me what is the purpose of this Ted talk?
Basit Amjad there’s nothing insightful about this. Pretty common knowledge.
I dislike many of the comments below. People refusing to see the perspective is very telling to their empathy and emotional intelligence. It is disappointing that so many don’t understand. Sexuality is completely different for males vs females. For males if you have many sexual conquests then you’re experienced, attractive, revered and put on a pedestal in many cases. For females your considered tarnished, used, unworthy and less than. This a parallel for what we are seeing in this video. It is not her fault for showing some cleavage, she was probably born that way. She wanted to feel sexy. She did nothing wrong. It is true that the internet is not private but the perception that how women dress is because they had it coming is ridiculous. If you dressed in a mechanics jumpsuit doesn’t mean you’re gonna get hired as a mechanic. How ANYONE dresses is not consent or intent. I hope they implement severe consequences for using anyone’s photo without their consent. If you’re still having a hard time understanding imagine someone photo shopping a penis in your mouth no matter your gender and sharing that photo all over the internet.
How unfortunate you’re a pretty girl with a outstanding figure. You call these people who photoshop your face on to other women’s bodies as predators. Well, in realty they are just highly motivated people who fantasize about you strictly as a visual ideal in their mind. They see a voluptuous woman and for a short while they do a little internet stalking hoping to find all the images they can. And when they can’t find the nudity they may be hoping for, they improvise by using readily available nudes. If this upsets you (as I’m sure for the majority of women it would) then you need to edit what you post. The internet’s job isn’t to censor,… it will post the good, bad, cute and ugly in all of us. Try pasting a copyright ghost over all of your photos!
Ohh come on Karen, men are sooo easy to understand. When we see melons like this our primal instincts turn on and our imagination turns to adult content. Thats how 99.9% straight men are wired. Try to take it as some kind of weird compliment, obviously you are very attractive to a lot of people, even if you dont like the way they express it.