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  • The Stallman report

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  • Yeah. Well, discussions about stuff like this are good at revealing people to block and ban.

  • The Stallman report

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  • Yeah it's a very thorough report and makes it very clear just how little excuse there is for FSF and Stallman's other defenders to continue to enable and support his behavior. Agreed that he himself isn't particularly relevant, but his supporters are still very influential in some areas of the open source community.

  • Examples of racism on Lemmy?

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  • Thanks, glad you appreciate it!

  • Examples of racism on Lemmy?

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  • Thanks, it's a great example, and good to hear they got banned quickly! It's a great point that when moderators are proactive most people don't see the posts so think there's less racism than there actually is.

  • Examples of racism on Lemmy?

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  • Thanks for the pointer.

  • Examples of racism on Lemmy?

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  • Good point, thanks. I seem to recall another one as well -- although both were widely defederated so I suspect most people on those instances didn't wind up seeing them.

  • Examples of racism on Lemmy?

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  • Thanks!

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    The Nexus of Privacy @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Examples of racism on Lemmy?

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Thanks much for the detailed response! And thanks @[email protected] for the detailed response as well.

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • That's a great point, can I quote you on having seen it on Lemmy quite a few times?

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Thanks very much for the feedback, I really appreciate the time you put into it and. you bring up a lot of very good points. For "start making" vs "making" and "less toxic" vs "more welcoming", I'm intentionally choosing the weaker forms to emphasize that these are only the very first steps. I know it's a harder sell this way but it's important to set expectations. It's a good point about how some allies saying :"listen to me!" take space from marginalized groups, I kind of feel like I've got that covered by betweent the combination of #1 and #2 but maybe it's worth making more explicit.

    Agreed that the discussion of repeated questions could be more explicit. (It's not necessarily sealioning, although sometimes it is; often it's the same one or two reasonable questions from a huge number of people.). But that's not actually the key point I'm trying to make. Instead, to relates to this:

    the way that this point is currently worded, it sounds fallacious (inversion of the burden of the proof)

    Many people react that way but think about it a little more. It's a fact. Mutliuple Black people have proven it repeatedly. There is no further burden of proof, it's only whiteness' denial that makes it seem like an open question and entitlement that makes it seem like Black people should produce more evidence. The annoyance factor is a big deal too, but it's secondary.

    And, good catch on the typo, thanks!

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Thanks very much for wading in, @[email protected] - and thanks again to all the mods for taking action here. Any thread about racism in the fediverse becomes evidence of racism in the fediverse, sigh.

    More positively, though, I got some very helpful feedback here from @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] ... which is appreciated, and testimony to the fact that clearly a lot of people on Beehaw do get it!

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Thanks very much for wading in!

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Good feedback, thanks much. I did check with Black people about directing folks to #BlackMastodon and the @ blackfedi group -- but I should probably be more explicit about not posting their, and your general point about not barging into spaces where you're not invited is importat and something I should highlight. I'll add something to the "and tht's not all" section about working on your biases and behaviors more generally. And also good point about stressing the intersectional aspects more. Greatly appreciated!

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Thanks much, I very much appreciate the supportive words! And, great analysis, thanks for that as well. Although, if you think things are bad here you should see the lemmy.world thread, where it's down to -47. And just imagine how much worse it would be if I were Black!

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • These things are basic, but most white people aren't doing them -- even people who think of themselves as staunchly pro Black. And there are multiple examples in the article of how white people might be impacting Black people unintentionally, for example thisiswomanswerk talks about how hand-wringing messages of symptay many times are themselves microaggresive, and suggestions like "Stop asking Black people for evidence of the anti-Blackness" and "Stop telling Black people that they'll experience less racism if they change instances (aka servers)"

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Yeah, the section on "Listen more to Black people" didn't really cover the challenges on Lemmy. I added this:

    If you're on a platform like Lemmy which doesn't yet have similar hubs, it's more challenging. One option is to use other social networks, news aggregators, and search engines to find articles, papers, and videos by Black people – and post them yourself to help others listen.

    How's that?

  • 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

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  • Thanks, all good points, I'll try to work them in! The boosting is somewhat tricky, the general guideline is "boost posts tht people want boosted, don't boost posts that they don't want boosted", but it's not always clear which is which (unless they. have "Please boost" in there somewhere)

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    The Nexus of Privacy @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

    privacy.thenexus.today /things-white-people-can-do-draft/

  • Federal privacy legislation update: the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA)

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  • Preemption is bonkers from a privacy perspective, and also flies in the face of the basic principle that the states are "the laboratories of democracy." But from a corporate perspective preemption is wonderful ... it keeps pesky pro-privacy states like California and Washington from ever raising the bar above whatever can get through Congress! So historically privacy advocates and organizations have always opposed preemptive federal legislation. But that wall cracked in 2022, where EPIC Privacy joined pro-industry privacy orgs like Future of Privacy Forum to support a preemptive bill (although EFF and ACLU continued to oppose the preemptive aspects).

    The argument for supporting a preemptive bill (not that I agree with it, I'm just relaying it) is that the federal bill is stronger than state privacy bills (California unsurprisingly disagreed), and many states won't pass any privacy bill. Industry hates preemption, industry hates the idea of a private right of action where people can sue companies, most Republicans and corporate Democrats will do what industry wants, so the only way to pass a bill is to include at most one of those. So the only way to get that level of privacy protection for everybody is for people in California, Maine, Illinois, etc, to give up some of their existing protection, and for people in Washington etc to give up the chance of passing stronger consumer privacy laws in the future. California of course didn't like that (neither did other states but California has a lot of votes in Congress), and Cantwell's staffers also told us in Washington that she was opposed to any preemptive bill, so things deadlocked in 2022.

    With this bill, I'm not sure why Cantwell's position has changed -- we're trying to set up a meeting with her, if we find out I'll let you know. I'm also not sure whether the changes in this bill are enough to get California on board. So, we shall see.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    The Nexus of Privacy @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Federal privacy legislation update: the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA)

    privacy.thenexus.today /federal-privacy-legislation-update-the-american-privacy-rights-act-apra/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    The Nexus of Privacy @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors

    www.wired.com /story/shotspotter-secret-sensor-locations-leak/
  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org
    The Nexus of Privacy @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (US Politics)

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    The Nexus of Privacy @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    PCLOB Report on NSA use of XKEYSCORE analysis tool

    documents.pclob.gov /prod/Documents/OversightReport/900dc3c3-dc5f-4202-b7f8-55ce574afb1d/NSA%20XKEYSCORE%20REPORT.pdf
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    The Nexus of Privacy @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Inside Biden’s secret surveillance court

    www.politico.com /news/2024/01/17/inside-bidens-secret-surveillance-court-00136175