Curated Resource ( ? )
Against “Don’t Read the Comments”
Curated:
02/02/2016 from
medium.com/@anildash/against-don-t-read-the-comments-aee43ce515b9
my notes ( ? )
what started as a cynical in-joke has become a bad habit, and an excuse for enabling abuse across the web... The fact that we joke about it documents an acceptance of a culture of abuse online. It helps normalize online harassment campaigns and treat the empowerment of abusers as inevitable, rather than solvable...
we denigrate a form that used to be, and sometimes still is, a powerful way of making meaningful connections with the world.... denying opportunity to those for whom connecting to a community online may be the only way to get a foot in the door. Those underrepresented, unheard voices are the most valuable ones we lose when we throw the baby out with the bathwater and assume online comments are necessarily bad...
How do we fix it? Simple: Hold platforms accountable.
we denigrate a form that used to be, and sometimes still is, a powerful way of making meaningful connections with the world.... denying opportunity to those for whom connecting to a community online may be the only way to get a foot in the door. Those underrepresented, unheard voices are the most valuable ones we lose when we throw the baby out with the bathwater and assume online comments are necessarily bad...
How do we fix it? Simple: Hold platforms accountable.
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