The Race Between Complexity and Control

A networked world is a less predictable world. There are ways to make it more predictable. But you’re not going to like them.

 
In 2017, Alyssa Milano urged her social media followers to post the words “me too” alongside their personal experiences of sexual harassment. Within days, millions of women shared or commented on such posts. The #MeToo hashtag was trending on Twitter. A new movement was born, carried on the wings of a social media meme.

The American #MeToo movement inspired Luo Qianqian, a Chinese citizen, to share her own story of sexual assault by a professor in Beijing, first on an online forum and later in an open letter that circulated online. Thousands of Chinese women followed in Luo’s footsteps, sharing their stories of university and workplace harassment on platforms such as Weibo and Wechat, using the hashtags #MeToo, #MeToo在中国# (“MeToo in China”) and #我也是 (“Me Too,” in Chinese).

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