Re:Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system
by mst on Sunday September 02, 2018 @03:39PM
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The story I told is the story as I understand it, from reading a smattering of articles from various viewpoints. I suspect many people have largely heard the story from a giant game of telephone on twitter, and as such details and nuance have been lost and distorted.
Note that when I describe what I think the argument somebody's making is, that doesn't mean I endorse the argument, merely that I'm trying to explain what the argument is.
I'm not taking a position on "fault", all things considered.
They said it was his blocklist that he put these people on. And that simply by being on his blocklist, their lives were ruined.
That's not the same story you told me.
And ignores the part where Harper was promoting her blocklist as a superior version of ggautoblocker. She encouraged people to promote it. So to say it's his fault for promoting a "personal" list also feels hollow.
He trusted Randi. That was a mistake. People blindly trusted the list he promoted. That was also a mistake. There's a degree of personal responsibility that everybody who used that list without verifying the content shoulders.