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       Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media Harassment
        
       Author : erehweb
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-02-23 22:07 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
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       | rektide wrote:
       | huge fan of Amy Zhang's work on digital
       | civics/harassment/governance/justice. She's one of the folks who
       | worked on SquadBox[1], which is a similar sort of protection
       | system, except it's run by your peers me/friends. Lets them
       | filter & deal with troubling encounters, be a first line of
       | defense.
       | 
       | her other projects are similarly on the leadingest of edges,
       | dealing with digital juries, construction kits for digital
       | policy, information truthfulness collaboration tools, many more.
       | 
       | so far almost all digital systems are authoritarian "we say so"
       | little fiefs & moderations is warnings or bans, & that's it. it's
       | remarkably savage & opaque & often imo cruel. glad to see some
       | attempts to bring real governance & process & human sociological
       | cooperativity into the wild wild net. thanks all you trying to
       | advance our resocialization.
       | 
       | [1]
       | https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~axz/pub_details.html?id=squ...
        
       | Dma54rhs wrote:
       | "I've experienced a pretty wide range of harassment," she said.
       | "Everything from the casual mansplaining-reply guys...
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       | Incredible that the whole article (basically an ad) is full of
       | attacks on people based on their gender and skin color, while
       | singing the buzzwords of diversity snd tolerance. American
       | society truly is bizarre.
        
       | neom wrote:
       | I remember when Tracy Chou did an AMA on Reddit and it devolved
       | into such vitriol that it effectively became an advert for her
       | own app.
        
       | qPM9l3XJrF wrote:
       | >women and people of color are particularly targeted for online
       | abuse
       | 
       | I think you have to be careful with the vocabulary here. If a
       | white man is being abused online, and he complains about it, his
       | complaint may be rendered illegitimate on the basis of being
       | "tone policing". He may be told that "freedom of speech does not
       | mean freedom from its consequences". He may be told that the
       | people abusing him are under no obligation to educate him and are
       | doing "unpaid emotional labor".
       | 
       | " _I_ call out bad behavior, _they_ are trolling, _you_ engage in
       | targeted online harassment. "
       | 
       | If anything, I've noticed that women and minorities seem to have
       | more of a blank check to get really crass and say things like "go
       | fuck yourself", etc. I see people being mocked on the basis of
       | being "mediocre white men" far more often on Twitter than I see
       | them mocked on the basis of being "mediocre black women" or
       | similar. Gendered/racialized equivalents of "toxic masculinity"
       | and "whiteness" aren't as widely employed.
       | 
       | (Agreed that social media can be terrible; I hope this initiative
       | makes it better.)
        
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