Watch Ashley Judd's Powerful Call to Action on Online Abuse

In her moving and in-depth TED Women talk, actress and activist Ashley Judd, a founder of the Women's Media Center Speech Project, challenges Silicon Valley, the criminal justice system, lawmakers and the education sector to understand online hate and intersectional harassment and to take the crisis of online abuse seriously. In this powerful talk, Judd describes her experiences as a daily target of ugly commentary and threats and outlines a series of important next steps to curbing online harassment and expanding women's freedom of expression and civic and political participation.