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Jul 13, 2018 3 tweets 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Not going to lie, kind of strange hearing about what Twitter should have done in terms of evaluating early design / product / technology decisions in order to make things more ethical is a bit strange. We did, I'm here, ask me! #itscomplicated #coedethics
One of the things that @YanqingCheng got at a bit, but otherwise hasn't really been discussed at #coedethics (apologies if I just missed it!) is what are the ways that legitimate efforts to ethically design and build software systems undermined or fail for any reason?
What are strategies to correct for this? How can the many people who are and have been doing this (and more explicitly radical technology) be more effective?

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May 27, 2018
Hey. British. People. Read. This. Thread.

Seriously.

While no doubt the US is incredibly broken, many there are speaking out and condemning the rampant racism; it's an active issue.

Here in the UK, too many people are content to be apathetic and tolerant of racism.
I'm not going to shut up about this, until the day I leave the UK because the latent xenophobia becomes just too much to bear.
It's not the overtly racist who bother me - it's the middle class "progressive" people, often vegan and socially committed and Labour supporters and all the good things - who refuse to speak out, who think we can just "keep calm and carry on."
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Jan 28, 2018
GDPR scares me. Not because it isn't a good idea. It's the implementation.

Problem #1: They're doing it in a 'waterfall' style, deciding how everything will be after the law drops, with no clear mechanism or timelines to fix broken things.
Problem #2: The above proposal, which describes sweeping, if minor, changes to how WHOIS information is shared, is published as a PDF, and takes 14 pages to describe three simple options. Inaccessibility through bureaucracy.
Problem #3: The people writing this are obviously not aware of the social dynamics of the thing they are deliberating on. The preferred option in this case hides any email address at all for WHOIS registrations.
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