pospi 🏳️⚧️
@ntnsndr this Princeton thing you're presenting Governable Spaces at has caused some alarm in queer DWeb communities. The conference has no CoC and is platforming Alex Gleason, who turns out to have worked with Trump on the 'Truth Social' app & is a full TERF. Someone found a photo of him giving a Sig Heil.
Not sure how to even begin addressing that but the organisers could probably do with exposure to your work...
Nathan Schneider
@pospi Thanks for this. I actually hadn't seen the list of participants until earlier today, and I wasn't aware of Gleason by name. I've reached out to the organizers to learn more. Starting with a clear CoC seems essential.
Nathan Schneider
@pospi did you see they clarified the roles in the participant list?
pospi 🏳️⚧️
@ntnsndr appreciate the action & solidarity ❤️
I am hardly surprised at this point. Free speech maximalism is rife within these communities, and extensive alt-right disinformation campaigns are having their intended effects upon mainstream discourse. So we say "tech is just tech" while we platform fascist influencers to have their say on the future of our online interactions.
#DWeb is a red-brown alliance.
Nathan Schneider
@pospi I agree the problem runs deep, especially in how shared technologies lends a sense of a common project even if the values are wildly divergent. That's one reason we did the DWeb Principles (which still need refinement)—to define a movement not limited to technology but focused on social goals.
pospi 🏳️⚧️
@ntnsndr I did! Some of the folks in my DWeb group also wrote in, their team responded with the CoC broadcast and committed to enforcing it & asking people to leave if gender-based violence comes up.
To be clear- wasn't pointing fingers at Princeton in particular, rather at what appears to be a structural fault in the culture of #DWeb / #Web3 / #ReFi. One person has started a conversation with me on "wtf to do about broader #DWebEmbracingFascism etc", which feels important to question & explore
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