the internet as public space
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regulation on how content is consumed, sometimes requests sometimes demands
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setting boundaries for your own pages and profiles
- taking lead on how you are treated and how you’d like to interact with the world
- but personal pages on public platforms aren’t actually personal, they’re a shopfront
- often unenforceable boundaries, left to other parties to respect or not, just like in offline world
- muting, blocking, or leaving platforms as direct mechanisms for disapproval
- mechanisms to report to authorities, just like in offline world
- who does and who should be holding any authority over these matters
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‘community guidelines’ in eg forums and discords that are legitimately community-informed and community-managed vs corporate ‘community guidelines’ that have frequent backlash by the users eg Instagram nipple policy
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the right to be an enigma, public art and its consequences
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the right to ignorance of possible response, pre-caveats and disclaimers, fear of mis-speech preventing sharing anything - both on and offline
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the importance of making mistakes, and dealing with them well
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public forums for backlash, the ease of storing evidence of wrongdoing
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public safety, safeguarding, what we owe to each other, online exploitation and consent
- ‘if you don’t like us maybe don’t follow us or don’t comment’ ‘no, you don’t get to say that. You’re a public figure.’
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online culture as representative of offline culture to more or lesser extents
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how comments sections on some forums can be more strictly controlled for integrity of useful educational eg coding, stack overflow, ‘this doesn’t answer the question’ sort of thing
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upvoting, downvoting, distributed mechanisms for approval
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QA forums, currency systems of social (or sometimes monetary) value, bulk answering without adding real value to discussion
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what about as physical space? the internet as physical infrastructure