The Internet of GarbageSarah Jeong
The Internet of Garbage
by Sarah Jeong · first published 2015
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Sarah Jeong's recent book The Internet of Garbage has a good discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of handling abuse as if it were spam, and argues in favor of a solution that is technically similar to current spam filtering, though not the same.…
on “The United Nations has a radical, dangerous vision for the future of the Web” ↗I would recommend you read "The Internet of Garbage" by Sarah Jeong, which tackles this argument in a lot of depth. It's also very cheap for an e-book!
on “Getting Rid of Comments on Vice.com” ↗…in this context meaningless word. That is also embarrassingly ignorant. If you'd like to learn something, maybe try Citron's "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace", Warren's "Targeted and Trolled", Jeong's "The Internet of Garbage", and Bancroft's "Why Does He Do That".
Have you read Sarah Jeong's The Internet of Garbage? http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Garbage-Sarah-Jeong-ebook/dp/... https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Sarah_Jeong_The_... (DRM-free)
on “Twitter’s Policy Reboot: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” ↗Yup. Quoting Sarah Jeong's The Internet of Garbage: "The strict 'hacker' definition of 'dropping dox,' as it was initially phrased, involves the publication of documentation (or 'docs'/'dox'). As Schneier points out, these can be addresses, phone numbers,…
on “How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson”” ↗There are some echoes here, I think, of Sarah Jeong's thesis in The Internet of Garbage about how copyright laws aren't anti-harassment or privacy laws, how they make terrible anti-harassment or privacy laws, and how victims feel like they're the only option, which is just bad for everyone.…
on “Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho ‘Ag-Gag Law’” ↗