Nadia Ahmad Samdin on building an inclusive and safe digital society
Singapore’s modern digital society craves content and loves to create it, but this gives rise to risks and negative consequences that must be addressed, said MP Nadia Ahmad Samdin in Parliament on Wednesday (Jan 10). She offered several examples. First, the curation of “perfect content” and “a filtered life” can be harmful to people’s self-esteem and intensify social comparisons, while pressure to draw quick likes can also lead to unverified or sensationalised content where truth is sacrificed for popularity. Second, some users, including impressionable minors, create suggestive content for validation, at times egged on by peers or malicious actors. Third, the rise of social media channels selling, encouraging and circulating non-consensual and illegally obtained sexually explicit materials. Ms Nadia said the online space must also be a respectful place for conversation among people with different and divergent views. She called for more to be done to rapidly change the way Singaporeans respect and protect one another as a digital community.
Singapore’s modern digital society craves content and loves to create it, but this gives rise to risks and negative consequences that must be addressed, said MP Nadia Ahmad Samdin in Parliament on Wednesday (Jan 10). She offered several examples. First, the curation of “perfect content” and “a filtered life” can be harmful to people’s self-esteem and intensify social comparisons, while pressure to draw quick likes can also lead to unverified or sensationalised content where truth is sacrificed for popularity. Second, some users, including impressionable minors, create suggestive content for validation, at times egged on by peers or malicious actors. Third, the rise of social media channels selling, encouraging and circulating non-consensual and illegally obtained sexually explicit materials. Ms Nadia said the online space must also be a respectful place for conversation among people with different and divergent views. She called for more to be done to rapidly change the way Singaporeans respect and protect one another as a digital community.
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