“For
once you are in total control of your sexual identity, or at least what you
decide to show the outside world.” The internet has become a space for freedom
of speech and liberation from social norms, but at the same time Tsang brings a
good point that we must be careful of what we put on the internet. “Play safe
treat every message as public, and every sexual partner as HIV positive.” Even something
that seems like freedom of speech is still limited and censored, watched even
by the FBI, government, your peers, parents, and everyone else with an
electronic device. Anything about a person can be easily changed by a simple
edit in a profile and the typing of a keyboard. All are truly “social
constructs, not biological existentialisms.” Tsang even confesses how the BBS has
caused him to rarely interact with others in a public environment because the
same interactions he has at a gay club is something he can receive virtually
within the comfort of his own home. People are becoming more intertwined with a
virtual reality that they are taken away from actual reality, only to be
awakened when they realize the person they were chatting with online was not
who they said they were nor real at all.
If the
internet was more secure or censored would people have identity problems? Would
the space to express oneself still be available?
Daniel
Tsang. “Notes on Queer ‘N’ Asian Virtual Sex.”
http://www.mtvasia.com/shows/catfish-season-4/
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