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Sri Lankan women are having fun on the internet, and Sachini Perera and I were happy to talk about it at the Imagine a Feminist Internet Conference. After studying and talking about oppression, harassment, and discrimination faced by women on the internet (and elsewhere; after all, the internet is but another manifestation of our reality) it was refreshing to be able to talk about something positive. Yet, I was uncomfortable, a voice whispering in my head that this is not right. Our work had followed established ethical protocol, and it was revealing a side of this realm that allows women to act with not just agency, but pleasure. Yet, the feeling of discomfort persists even now, forcing myself to question: do the ethics of internet research based on social media platforms sufficiently address this many-faced entity?

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