Sarah Jeong on Online Trolling and Harassment

Ars Technica logoWhat to do on a Wednesday night in San Francisco?  BART over to the Longitude tiki bar in Oakland, of course, for a discussion with Ars editors Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar and journalist Sarah Jeong (author of “The Internet of Garbage”) about online trolling and harassment!  I had just been working on a wiki page with a handful of links about muting, blocking, and tools for people to protect themselves online as reference material for next week’s presentation on Supporting diversity with a new approach to software, so the lively discussion was particularly timely 🙂

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