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- 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 deal with the weaponized. We welcome you to join us at an event, on our mailing list, or to hold space as well.
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2015 April Nairobi 2015 August Berlin
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Groups we admire / are relevant to what we're working on. Facing History
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Shaming on Twitter 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?