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# Cyphersex
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cyphersex.org

DRAFT excerpt: https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/reader/Cyper_Sex_Manual_excerpt_%5BDRAFT_-_do_not_share%5D.pdf

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the project is about localising guides - working with very specific groups of people that are also very heterogenous 

A Focus on digital self defense
Questions :
    - If you could think about all the devices that you have ; what devices you have to connect to the internet ? 
    - What do you do online ? list out 10 or 20 different things that u do online. (social media, finances, e-mailing, things as in Practices + Apps + Accounts + Functions.. )
    - Give some thought about the level of certain closeness and the relation between service/account/identity - using official name, work account and private account on social media (same for email), in terms of the level of trust that you give to those groups

Each of these kind of "arenas" is what we call a social domain (family, work, friends)

if you personally has experience issues around the mix of those social domains . some content that circulate in one social domain should not pass into another.

do you any example from personal life or friends when they had issues with these kind of information being shared ? what is the worst case scenario you'd want to avoid 

ref
What is queer privacy - Sarah Jamie Lewis
https://leanpub.com/queerprivacy
rephrases the question of privacy in terms of a question of consent
"Privacy is the right to consent"
right to give consent but also right to withdraw consent 

background
SEE: https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/localising-digital-self-defence-guides-sex-workers
working as a webdevelopers for people doing sex work online 
recent law passed in 2018 in the US called F OSTA/SESTA. supposedly agains sex trafficking.
it created an exception to the net neutrality law , where the provide r is not responsible for the use that one makes of an online service ( facebook is not responsible for what you post, the user is responsible ).
this law made an exception, saying that law enforcement could go after companies if it was cases of child or sex trafficking. 

a podcast about section 230 : https://open.spotify.com/episode/1i1aaKrJj9JsaAfUq32yuT
https://radiolab.org/podcast/internet-dilemma

this means that if there's a service provider online and someone uses it for sex trafficking, that company becomes responsible for that (even retrospectively). This law is so badly written that the companies don't understand how to interpret it. 
the law is so badly written that the conmpanies do not know how to interpret it. panic after law means that the companies calculated the risk of their users, taking a blanket banning approach all over prohibiting adult material in general.

in 2018 créaiglist shut down all its missed connections channel because they were afraid that it could be used in the case of sex trafficking. Then the definition of adult content became broader with sex education, erotica, vibrators etc. So all the provide started to ban these content
a lot of queer content sexualised as adult content also started falling into the generalized ban approach..
domino effect that anything that would qualified as adult would be banned and all queer content was qualified as adult so banned. 

a lot of people wanted to move their websites outside of the states, trying to understand how to navigate all the bans and obstacles.. 

two guides (cyphersex.org)
- one for dominatrix in the states; how this community of people is using the internet, how they already strategy in place 
- one for the berlin context resulting from workshops and discussions with sex workers in berlin/germany 

request to translate those guides in french, spanish ect but didn't make a lot of sense because each context is very different. So they came up with the idea of the manual, to help making a guide that applies to the local context. 

Fosta/sesta impact everyone but not many people actually know about it. 

Intersectional discussion around online work for the rest of the week

Five parts 
1. Self-defense ? : instead of digital security, security/safety used by government to control people. Wanting to focus on how people could empower themselves in their practices online, in their choices of tools etc. Needing to be a holistic approach, sharing with people articulations of fear in relation to particular activities online. Thinking about harm reduction, it's not about using or not a tool. "We are guide for sexworker community but we write it in such a way that it can be broadly referenced used by other types of comminity"
Solidary network and community building text, commissioned to talk about the importance of network care for such work
2. Me t hods: participatory  threat modeling and person-based design, , separating life domains
3. Interview and workshop templates, questionnaire for workshop, focus group questions, sample digital defense workshop agenda 
4. Digital defense guides: necessary modules; how to choose tools, terms of use, identity management,
5. Digital self degense guides context specific modules 

A lot of research made, a lot of guides online already that take the approach of dealing with different types of community but none speciffically oriented towards sex workers
https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/A-first-look-at-digital-security-OCT2020.pdf

refs..
https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/localising-digital-self-defence-guides-sex-workers
https://www.inventati.org/cyphersex/
https://0xacab.org/reginazabo/cyphersex-website
https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/A-first-look-at-digital-security-OCT2020.pdf
https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Other_Weapons

Also see:
Gendersec Guide to Multiple Identity Management https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Step_1

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