Tiziana Cantone and the Ethics of Digital Exposure

Marco Senaldi's editorial on Artribune examines the case of Tiziana Cantone, who died by suicide after private videos were shared online without her consent. Senaldi argues that the tragedy reveals how digital media can destroy lives, not merely through content but through the form of replication itself. He critiques the defense by Ask.fm founder Ilja Terebin, who blamed parents' ignorance of teen socializing. Senaldi insists that the urge to duplicate—the 'libido duplicandi'—is the true medial disease. He calls for critical engagement with such material, noting that watching Cantone's videos forces an ethical confrontation with the subject's absence. The article concludes that the digital age, or 'age of obversion,' leaves no one safe from themselves.