Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
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Author/ed of 7 books, (no 8 on its way), speaker, media commentator, Collective Shout co-founder + Movement Director. Tweets my own.
Joined August 2009
‘Please ask the boys to stop making sexual moaning noises in class'.'Please ask the boys to stop telling us about the porn they watched last night' .'Please ask the boys to stop ranking us according to the bodies of porn stars' 1/.
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Alison Pearson relays a conversation with a GP who described anal tearing from porn-inspired anal sex, increasingly happening to adolescent girls:."A GP, let's call her Sue, said: 'I'm afraid things are much worse than people suspect'. 1/.
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These are some of the messages girls I've met the last couple of months wanted conveyed to boys at their schools. The porn industry is grooming boys to behave in sexist, predatory ways. But the Federal Government is taking a hands-off approach, allowing the industry to.
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'Please ask the boys to stop making jokes about our bodies' 'Please ask the boys to stop rubbing up against us in the corridors' .'Please ask the boys to stop sending us dick pics' 2/.
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'Please ask the boys to stop calling our mothers MILFS'.'Please ask the boys to stop threatening to rape us if we don't send nudes'.(young women of colour, Yrs 7-8) 'Please ask the boys to stop calling us their dirty little sex slaves' 3/.
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'Please ask the boys to stop telling us they are going to take us to their sex dungeon'.'Please ask the boys to stop airdropping porn on the school bus'.(Lesbian girls) 'Please ask the boys to stop telling us they're going to rape us straight' 4/.
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. not being coerced into violent sex by some kid who picked up his ideas about physical intimacy from porn." MTR 'Never Again: Addresing sexual violence must include pornography' @ABCreligion #welcometosex #VAW 7/7.
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Murdered woman found stuffed in freezer, 2 little boys without a mother, husband on run and @australian p 3 story today leads with neighbors saying she was a nagger. Really? That had to be your opener?
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@hm @hmaustralia what is your intention with this sponsored Facebook ad? Little schoolgirls generally don’t want to “turn heads”. The large numbers I engage with in schools want to be left alone to learn and have fun and not draw unwanted attention to their appearance 1/
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@AlboMP @MRowland given the weight of evidence of the de-forming impact of porn on the developing sexual templates of our young people and the call from frontline women's safety + child protections orgs for urgent action, when will you respond? #pornharms #ageverification #VAW.
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"The girls presenting with incontinence were often under the age of consent and from loving, stable homes. Just the sort of kids who, two generations ago, would have been enjoying riding and ballet lessons, and still looking forward to their first kiss, 6/.
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In recent years, Sue had treated growing numbers of teenage girls with internal injuries caused by frequent anal sex; not, as Sue found out, because they wanted to, or because they enjoyed it, but because a boy expected them to. 2/.
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'Her male partner’s porn use hurts her like a betrayal. She feels sexually inadequate and unattractive. If she voices her distress about the man’s porn use to friends/family/therapists, she is told that “all men use porn,” it’s a normal thing, not a big deal, she’s overreacting1/.
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When Sue questioned them further, they said they were humiliated by the experience but they had simply not felt they could say no. Anal sex was standard among teenagers now, even though the girls knew it hurt . 5/.
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"Her patients were deeply ashamed at presenting with such injuries. They had lied to their mums about it and felt they couldn't confide in anyone else, which only added to their distress. 4/.
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'I'll spare you the gruesome details', said Sue, 'but these girls are very young and slight and their bodies are simply not designed for that'. 3/.
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'Pornography today is so violent and dehumanizing to women and girls that most women can’t look at it without being traumatized. .
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The little girls parents generally prefer heads don’t ‘turn’ when others see their daughters walking to school, on a bus or in class. Why would you want to fuel the idea that little girls should draw attention to their looks, bodies and ‘style’? 2/.
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@gwilliam_jones I am hearing more accounts like this from female teachers who are leaving the profession. They say they didn’t go into teaching to be sexually harassed on a daily basis.
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Perhaps have a word to your marketing team and come up with something that doesn’t draw attention to pre pubescent girls already struggling to thrive in a culture that values ‘lookism’ as an aspirational goal? 3/3 #girls #children #sexualisation #adultification #bodyimage.
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@lisawhitbourn Schools have a legal duty of care to provide a safe educational environment. They are criminally and civilly liable for the sexual harassment occurring on their grounds. Perhaps go to police given the inaction?.
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As the relationship deteriorates, women mourn the loss of intimacy, both sexual and emotional. They’re humiliated by the degrading, objectifying pornosex their partners now inflict upon them. 3/.
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If there’s a problem the problem is with her; if only she would loosen up and get over her hang-ups. Naturally the boyfriends and husbands agree with this assessment. 2/.
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But because they blame themselves and because they want to be “good women” – selflessly giving, caring – they keep trying to help the men. They find men therapists who specialize in “porn addiction” and arrange men’s stays in rehab. 4/.
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They exhaust themselves caretaking for men who long ago sacrificed human connection for porn consumption. 5/.
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@emmabrice3 We will see even more problematic sexual behaviours in schools if the Federal Government continues to allow the porn industry to have unrestricted access to children. @AlboMP @MRowlandMP #auspol2023.
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Canadians have the honour of owning the world’s biggest conveyor of woman-hating, the Montreal-based website Porn Hub. The website is free to access, with no age restrictions and no restrictions on the defilement of women. Rape and torture videos abound. .
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Porn Hub was visited 42 billion times in 2019. To put this number in perspective, there are 4 billion men on the planet.
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. We have to start looking at the cultural drivers for violence against women. We can’t stop femicide without taking out the reservoirs of woman-hating.
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Sex dolls and robots are patriarchy’s latest creation, described by one aficionado as “better than real women because they can be endlessly violated and torn apart without any complaint.” (Roper).
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‘Unfortunately we are not able to accept credit cards’. Best @pornhub content they’ve ever posted! #shutitdown #traffickinghub #crimescene #misogyny #CSEM.
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Next step. Charge @Pornhub execs with crimes against humanity. #shutitdown #crimescene #misogyny #racism #antisemitism.
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Aurora Linnea review of my new book He Chose Porn Over Me @spinifexpress. #pornharms #pornculture #VAW #spinifexpress #hechosepornoverme 6/6.
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'Globally, nearly 89,000 women and girls were killed intentionally in 2022, the highest yearly number recorded in the past two decades. 1/.
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They are the boot camps of male entitlement—and primary sites of the destruction of women. They must be abolished.'.Donna Johnson @4WPub. #vaw #femicide #misogyny #pornharms #patriarchy.
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Lily Phillips vs Bonnie Blue…. When women compete with each other in a race to the bottom to see who can be most debased + degraded by the largest number of p*rn sick opportunistic men in a short time 1/
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I've suspected for a while that a big reason for the rise in school refusal in girls is because of what they face there - sexual harassment, threats of rape, demands for nudes, unsolicited dick pics, being subjected to sexual moaning and groaning noises and gestures, among other.
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@AnnSmithSF @kate_manne Here’s a story. couple of years back i was engaged to address a state conference of counsellors. It had all been agreed to. There was a high profile male speaker they wanted to secure as well. They asked if i would help. I did. They got him. Then dropped me.
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‘The massive consumption [of pornography] from a young age reinforces rape culture…the head of the French equality watchdog …called pornography “a school for sexual violence which must stop”’
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You can buy just the torso if you prefer, or just the head. Or just the anus. All available on Amazon and Etsy. Be sure to leave a review.
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@gwilliam_jones A teacher here said she was told by a male student in her classroom she had “a mouth that belongs on Pornhub.”.
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Prostituted women are abducted. raped, gang raped, beaten, trafficked, enslaved, subjected to coerced sterilisation and abortion. Reem Alsalem .@UNSRVAW addressing #cesesummit Washington DC 1/.
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@buggirl I had one gamer goon here lecture me on why i was a menace to society. He was a cartoonist with a bestiality fetish.
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It's never too soon to exploit vulnerable women in wartime. Kelly's Hotel in Cranbourne Vic has decided to exploit Ukrainian women - who as we speak are having bombs dropped on them and their children - in FB marketing for its pub >
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Pornography exposure a factor in increase in adolescent child abuse according to an analysis published in the International Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect. 'By far the most common child sexual abuse perpetrator in Australia is another under-18 known to the victim, with.
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Hey @abclifeau what is this gaslighting of women i see on your site? How much public money is used to pay this ‘couples counsellor’ for blaming women whose husbands rent other women’s bodies?
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@AnnSmithSF @kate_manne I’ve also had (from a male) “But we thought you’d do it for free” . this to interrupt my families Xmas holidays to speak at a family camp/conference in another state.
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Hey @TeePublic maybe you missed the memo? We’re supposed to safeguard children these days, not serve them up to be raped. ping @Martin_Hosking #corporatepaedophilia #childprotection #childsafeguarding #childsexabuse
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My friend got this today from her 3 year old's kindy. I told her to put in two slices of choc slice tomorrow and tell them to get lost.
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Thank you to everyone who fought so hard for this for so long. The Government has heard us at last. #enoughisenough .#VAW #childprotection #womensafety #MVAW #auspol #auspol2024.
This is fantastic news. The government will implement the @eSafetyOffice's original roadmap to age verification of adult pornography, which involved a trial of age assurance technology.
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Why not name the ‘third party presenter’ who reportedly spoke of bestiality as normal practice for queer people in a presentation to Yr 9 girls in the Riverland S.A?
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'MPs urge crackdown on pornography to tackle violence against women. All-party group says there is extensive evidence that consuming pornography fuels sexual violence 1/.
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Of all the women and girls intentionally killed last year, some 55 percent were killed by intimate partners or other family members (48,800 victims), showing that home is not a safe place for many women and girls. 2/.
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> Women and girls suffer the most during wartime. Vast numbers preyed on and exploited, including in the sex trade. And this pub chooses to turn a Ukrainian women into marketing material >.
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'It is so much easier to focus on your performance. when you do not have to worry about whether your bikini bottom has ridden up in an unflattering way… or what angle a photographer might be able to capture you on. ” Rose Boyd, Australia’s beach handball team.
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MTR quoted in Kylie Lang column @couriermail on how porn industry targets kids through cartoon characters & games. #pornharms
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Statues pulled down. Films expunged from the cultural record. Meanwhile @Pornhub @mindgeek profit from racialized pornographized slave-brutalizing hate speech with impunity. #Traffickinghub #BlackLivesMatter #racism #slavery #crimescene
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The Federal Government has decided not to adopt an age-verification system to help protect children from porn exposure. As a result, even more children & young people will be harmed. Like the girls I met in schools this week who told me: 1/.
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“Asian street meat” - Why is @mindgeek @pornhub still allowed to profit from racist abuse? #traffickinghub #VAW
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Thanks to the p*rn industry and its handmaidens, more men and boys are emboldened to think this is what all women and girls really want and pressure them to submit. The situation is bleak…and getting bleaker…5/5.
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@eleanorcarey These acts occur on a continuum. masturbating/ejaculating on a female MPs desk - while not *equivalent* to the grievous human rights violation that is rape - is also an expression of entitlement and contempt. #misogyny #VAW #auspol2021 #BrittanyHiggins.
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More young women are suffering anal prolapse/incontinence/requiring colostomy bags (as I’ve documented elsewhere) as a result of p*rn sex. 3/.
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The DPP didn't oppose bail for Monis after sexual crimes against women. Why the hell not? #4corners #lindtcafe.
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…[fellow player] Mejed said competing in a bikini, opens athletes up to sexual harassment and inappropriate comments from the general public. #letthemwearshorts #dropthefine.
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How much self-hatred must you have to advertise yourself as a receptacle for semen - and film it for your p*rn site? Lily was clearly traumatised after her last 100-men-in-a-day spectacle. How will she end up after this? 2/.
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The porn industry is an example of “limbic capitalism”. The historian David Courtwright has coined this term “to describe a technologically advanced but socially regressive business system in which global industries, often with the help of complicit governments. .
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Great news! Thanks to all who supported @CollectiveShout campaign to get Vic to fall into line with 4 states/territories and ban misogynist #WickedCamper slogans. #VAW #sexism #notonourroads #statusofwomen
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@UNSRVAW What? That’s appalling! It’s bad enough to deny you entry- but to also prevent you from delivering your address online is senseless.
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‘I wish my daughter saw women given the spotlight to entertain without a camera pointed at their crotch. I’d like her to know that the success of women need not be proportionate to the sexual desire they’re able to evoke’ #SuperBowl.
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So I was pleased to come across this piece by the UK Agenda Alliance yesterday which echoes my thinking. We can’t address absenteeism and school refusal, if we don’t address the unwelcoming and harmful environments in schools, which threaten the physical and mental health of.
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@DavidLeyonhjelm says wife upset re @chaser vans outside home. Wonder how she'd feel if saw this? #wickedcampers
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Under the guise of ‘sex positivity’, ‘empowerment’ & even ‘feminism’, OF ‘stars’ are normalising brutal sex acts which harm women + girls. 4/.
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I didn’t have any research data on it – just what girls were telling me directly. They just didn’t feel safe at school. "I'm afraid something bad will happen to me", one Yr 6 girl told me 2/.
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"Girls thus face an incredibly hostile environment at school, and research shows sexual harassment and violence ‘can lead to lower school engagement, anxiety, alienation from teachers and poor academic achievement’. It’s easy to see why some girls don’t want to attend – and that.
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A few years ago Kanye West claimed to have quit porn. Now he just turns his wife into it instead. #misogyny #VAW #KANYEWEST #kanyewife.
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The quality of our elected representatives. Time to unelect him. @DavidLeyonhjelm @chaser #WickedCampers
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‘Pornography is filmed prostitution. 90 pc of it is violent. It shapes the expectations of men and boys. It drives men and boys to seek physical prostitution.’ 4/.
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@NickKristof Thank you so much. We are all so grateful to you for exposing the women and girl-hating rape merchants of @MindGeek @Pornhub #shutitdown #traffickinghub #VAW #misogyny #16DaysOfActivism.
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'Where can I get her?? very cute" asks Tony Kennedy. Kelly's replies: 'All information is supplied buddy!' It's almost like they think they are performing a public service, serving up foreign women for male pleasure. #endexploitation #VAW #misogyny #UkraineCrisis #notbuying it.
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‘Two cops fuck a nigger’. How’s that whole solidarity with #Blacklivesmatter thing working for you @Pornhub @mindgeek ? #ShutItDown #hategroup #racism #GeorgeFloyd
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Steve. No. Stop. Women distressed about violence against women are not 'hysterical'. #qanda.
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Girls face a deep-rooted culture in which routes to accountability and justice are often obstructed, and blame, judgment, and dismissal is widespread. Daily sexual violence for girls is traumatic, and how they may express themselves about their distress is often seen as a.
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'We have no choice [than to go pay Asian women]. Young Aussie lassies aged 18-30 don't want to become prostitutes. ' .via @EllyArrow .#sextrade #prostitution #sexbuyers #Johns #misogyny #VAW #MVAW
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Credit where credit is due. Thank you @ScottMorrisonMP for revoking Julien Blanc visa. http://t.co/IHa7YC9Ptm
#takedownjulienblanc.
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Yes! Last week scrolling through a thread i was interested in - unrelated to this issue- and without warning subjected to vid playing of one of the most disgusting, degrading, violent acts against a woman i’ve ever seen. I won’t reshare. Yet my/@CollectiveShout tweets slapped.
Get porn off X. It’s unregulated, and we did not consent to have porn forced upon us daily. #twittersafety #abu.
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“Adolescent consumption of pornography, especially when violent, may lead to distorted sexual scripts that legitimise sexual coercion and abuse, enhance its likelihood in lived experience, and undermine sexual activity with full, free and voluntary consent,” the article says.
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Yep. Most days in schools girls tell me boys threaten them with suicide if they won’t do what he wants. I’ve met younger girls who sent nudes thinking they were saving the life of an older teen boy.
Last night I drove two 12-year-old girls home from youth group and listened as they talked about frustration with boys at school. One said, “I told him I wouldn’t date him, so now every time I see him in the hallway, all his friends shout, “Ew! Look at that ugly rat!” at me.
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Maybe if @Pornhub was recognised as a monument of racist hate then it would be pulled down? #MindGeek #BlackLivesMatter #VAW #racism #traffickinghub
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“Police are increasingly seeing instances of domestic and sexual.abuse in the context of teen relationships. Young people are increasingly being exposed to adult concepts at an earlier age.” - Det. Chief Inspector Tom Barnes. ‘Out of the Chaos’ #4Corners #VAW #coercivecontrol.
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