ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship Panusaya ‘Rung’ Sithijirawattanakul - © Adirach Toumlamoon (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panusaya_Sithijirawattanakul.jpg) 💗🏳️‍🌈 Digital Dictatorship threatens the safety of women, LGBTIQA+, and all other communities marginalised based on gender/queerness Similar to the aforementioned cases regarding people who have been marginalised based on race, ethnicity, and religion, women and LGBTIQA+ people are targeted based on their identities, even when states claim that they recognize gender equality and LGBTIQA+ rights. Online sexual harassment, smear campaigns, doxxing, forced outings, misogyny, and other gender-based violence, are used in every Southeast Asian nation as weapons against people of marginalized gender and sexuality identities, especially those with intersecting marginalized identities. For example, Malaysian Muslim women’s advocates have reportedly been harassed for supporting Muslim women’s rights causes, and have been accused of being morally ‘deviant’ for doing so.1 It must also be acknowledged that separate from online harassment, people of marginalised gender/sexuality identities also deal with disproportionate levels of gender-based and sexuality-based violence if/when incarcerated as a result of Digital Dictatorship. Part of the issue is also likely the lack of representation of diverse gender identities in governments and other decisionmaking bodies. If societies are disproportionately straight-identifying and patriarchal, they are more likely to cause and/or allow violence against people of marginalised gender and sexuality identities. Overall, women and LGBTIQA+ individuals are disproportionately affected by gender-based harassment and digital dictatorship overall. To read more, please see our ’INTERSECTIONAL GENDER ANALYSIS’ sections at the end of each country chapter. 1. UN Women Asia Pacific, Online Violence Against Women in Asia: A Multicountry Study, (November 2020), available at: https://asiapacific. unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Field%20Office%20ESEAsia/Docs/Publications/2020/12/ap-ICT-VAWG-report-7Dec20.pdf Fig. B2, Intersectional Gender Focus: Digital Dictatorship threatens the safety of women, LGBTIQA+, and all other communities marginalised based on gender/queerness. 17