So what I did was I made a pretty powerful anti-harassment tool, and I’m kind of leery of… It’s one of those things that like I, I feel weird about it because I don’t have a tremendous use for it myself, but I know that other people do. And I’ve talked to people about this, and I sort of made the decision not to put it on Github or be public about it for mainly the reason that I think Twitter is kind of weird with harassment, and I think they’re weird with blocking, and I think they have a strange track record of making the tools that are useful to people who are trying to protect themselves and be safer sort of weirdly harder to access and kind of obscure.
Mitchell Baker’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech
presented by Mitchell Baker
The thing that always amazed me about [the Internet] is that it was just there. It wasn't a giant announcement. It wasn't a person. It wasn't an organization. It was just there. Read more →
