They are five young women who refused to accept that safety is a privilege.

CindyUp began as a school project about drink spiking.

But the deeper story is about young people turning fear into design, silence into public language, and “be careful” into “why is this still acceptable?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/designing-safety-how-five-students?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#CindyUp #YouthInnovation #DrinkSpikingAwareness #GenderSafety #YouthAgency #SocialInnovation #WomenInSTEM #EntrepreneurshipEducation #SafetyByDesign

This sets the scene for many more cases like this. While the evidence was striking, the case highlighted how little user safety features in platform design and decision-making. #SafetyByDesign
This is very interesting regarding #SafetyByDesign and #Tech policy as a whole. Because what most Internet and Tech Policy people are saying generally amounts to "It is complicated!" "This will have unintended consequences".
Been on a bit of a journey reading about Systems Thinking in the last few weeks. Why is that, you may ask? Well: point one, I wanted to understand the arguments for #SafetyByDesign as added to the UK #OnlineSafetyAct which says that services must be "safe by design".

Would you like to see a middle-aged man grumble about Italian battery design for roughly 20 minutes?
You would?!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE-eUlWpMt0

#SafetyByDesign #engine #EV #Batteries

Bad Battery Design Rant

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Every time an academic paper equates online platform with algorithmically curated social media, somewhere a fairy dies. #DutyOfCare #RiskCreatingFunctionality #SafetyByDesign
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Mastodon will add quote posts, even though some users don’t want them | The Verge
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#OnlineSafety #SafetyByDesign #mastodon
Mastodon will add quote posts, even though some users don’t want them | The Verge

Remember, kids: Quote-Tweets served no purpose on Twitter other than abuse… or maybe not. Perhaps people who go around demanding “safety by design” might like to reconsider the usabilit…

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