Friday, November 13, 2015

Week 9-Venice Santos

“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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