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Revision as of 21:41, 6 April 2015
- The existing harms of social scripts we ran while in smaller, geographically-constrained groups are being amplified due to network effect. Tiny unchecked errors, scaled, become large harms as people find ways to exploit them, in life just as in software. - Meredith
Weaponized Social is a series of events, discussion, action, and surrounding community to examine the network effects of human interaction, to encourage the healthy and to deweaponize the powerful tools at our fingertips. We welcome you to join us at an event, on our mailing list, or to hold space as well.
Events
Past
Upcoming
Tentative
Groups
- Groups we admire / are relevant to what we're working on.
Projects
From Weaponized Social events
External Awesome
Please either reach out to these folk directly, or indicate your interest via User:Willow's talk page.
HeartMob
HeartMob is a platform where you can safely report your harassment and request support from a community of kind people who want to help.
- Looking for: Amplification of the project, Testers (practical implementation)
Countering Online Harassment Support Guide
COHSG is everything we collectively know about how to protect yourself from online attacks, in one handy guide.
- Looking for: Testers (practical implementation)
WAM!'s Twitter Reporting Project
In November 2015, we ended the reporting phase of our Twitter project. We’ve received almost 700 reports in 3 weeks, which has given us plenty of data to analyze, and we’ve managed to help over 100 people get action from Twitter along the way. We’ve also driven widespread media attention to the issue of gendered harassment on social media. Now we’re going to focus on analyzing the data, with an eye to producing a report early next year, and then using it to press Twitter for changes. We're in the final stages of research analysis, and will be releasing a report in the coming months.
We’ll keep you posted, so follow us on social media, or join our email list to stay connected.
- Looking for: Amplification of the project
Block Together
A web app intended to help cope with harassment and abuse on Twitter.
External Resources
Should Mom-and-Pops That Forgo Gay Weddings Be Destroyed?
- If their Yelp rating goes down by a star does the punishment fit the "crime"? Is there a financial loss at which social pressure goes from appropriate to too much? How about putting them out of business? Digital mobs insulting them and their children? Email and phone threats from anonymous Internet users? If you think that any of those go too far have you spoken up against the people using those tactics?
Security Lockdown: A Lay Person's Guide to Baseline Privacy
- This episode led me to ruminate on how dehumanizing the Internet can be, how deeply socialized gender is, and how elusive privacy has become.
This write-up also includes a fantastic list of online safety resources.
What to do if Trolls have doxx'd you
- if trolls have doxx'd you, let your friends and family on Facebook know there may be fake accounts impersonating you for information