Category Archives: Awesome Initiatives

Twitter to be more Pro-Active about Cyberbullying

Via Digital Spy Twitter announced today three important changes in their fight against cyberbullying: “Today, we’re announcing three changes: stopping the creation of new abusive accounts, bringing forward safer search results, and collapsing potentially abusive or low-quality Tweets. Stopping the creation of new abusive accounts: We’re taking steps to identify people who have been permanently

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Federal strategy will aim to fight cyber violence against women

Via  CBCNews “In the online context, I think the violence that is experienced is trivialized,” says Kendra Milne, director of law reform at the Vancouver-based West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). “Some cases tend to turn into a bit of a subjective analysis about whether or not the women involved should have been reasonably fearful

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A Tribe Called Red’s Deejay NDN takes racist, misogynistic music off his playlist

Via CBC’s Unreserved I just heard this on CBC and thought I would post it. Here’s a sample of  Ian Campeau’s explaining his decision: “When you oppress women as you’re trying to elevate your community, you’re oppressing half of the people you’re trying to elevate,” Campeau explained. This re-examination of what he listens to at

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What Can Combat Hate Speech? Why Flower Speech Of Course!

Via Shanly (thanks for this!) via Medium   Flower Speech: New Responses to Hatred Online by Susan Benesch, is a little beacon of light in the sea of despair that is online hate speech. In the vein of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything, where she describes some grass roots environmental-protest movements from around the world

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“Who would this hurt?”: Design for Real Life According to Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Via A List Apart (Thanks Eric and Kirsten for sharing!) Our users don’t live the tidy little lives we’ve concocted for our personas, with their limited set of problems. Life is messy and unpredictable; some days, terrible. When planning a project, it’s important not to let our excitement lull us into blithely ignoring life’s harsher

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