After tackling revenge porn on the site,its former CEO was subjected to vicious abuse and forced to resign. Can the internet ever glean over its misogyny?Ellen Pao was at the heart of two of 2015’s biggest feminist news stories: her discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins; and her resignation from content-sharing site Reddit, after weathering what she later called “one of the largest trolling attacks in history” – death and rape threats, and racist abuse,libel, her home address publicised online – from Reddit users glum with Pao’s efforts to crack down on abominate speech and revenge porn.
Pao could maintain lain low in both jobs. Instead, and she became a gamechanging force in 2015,taking on racism and sexism in very public ways that actually made an ideological dent. She made the day-to-day internet, the executive offices of Silicon Valley finance and the broad swath of life in between incrementally more hospitable for women. I sat down with Pao in San Francisco to talk about the toxic underbelly of the internet, and how we can fix it and what might be next after her well-earned time off.
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Source: theguardian.com