📹 After a client secretly recorded their virtual sex session and leaked it, every phone notification sends sex worker Elizabeth Otieno into a cold sweat.
🚨 She’s only one of many sex workers across Africa who have become victims of non-consensual pornography. 👇🧵
🗣 "I feel ashamed and anxious all the time. My partner left me and even my family won't talk to me," says Elizabeth.
"I thought it was a safe and private way to make money, but virtual sex ruined my life."
From Kenya 🇰🇪 and Uganda 🇺🇬 to Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Nigeria 🇳🇬, pandemic restrictions have pushed sex workers from bars, brothels and massage parlours to websites, apps and video calls.
⭕️ A lack of digital security awareness is leaving them vulnerable.
🗣️ “By using imprecise and vague terms [and] confusing terminology... officials bypassed laws, avoided norms, and approved expansive policy measures,” writes @KarenGreenberg3, director at @CNSFordhamLaw
By now you've probably heard that #Bitcoin mining is bad for the environment. @ElonMusk even Tweeted about it yesterday 🪙.
But why does mining use so much energy? And how big is the impact anyway? 🧵
Before we get started, some housekeeping:
1⃣ #Bitcoin = A #cryptocurrency that can be used in transactions or as a store of value
2⃣ Blockchain = A decentralised database that stores information on transactions
3⃣ Blocks = A group of transactions
Got it? Let’s move on 🏃♀️.
Bitcoin mining is energy-intensive ⚡️ because of a process called “proof of work.”