Posts Tagged ‘Predator Alert Tool’
Software Development as Direct Action
22 Jul 2015 at 19:36
maymay
Community, My Videos, Myths and misconceptions, Personal history, Politics of sex, Technology
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Praxis Journal’s “Mapping Sexual Assault” and Technology for Rape Survivor Support Networks
This is a long and highly technical paper written by someone who has been thinking about sexual assault survivor support along the same exact lines as unquietpirate and myself. We began our work on Predator Alert Tool in early to mid-2012 and eventually released the first functional prototype on October 26, 2012. A little over […]
The Match Percentage Fallacy, or, the influence of rolequeerness on the Predator Alert Tool project
19 Nov 2014 at 21:22
maymay
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So I wrote this thing pushing back against continual attempts by the rape-supporting scum that is the BDSM and Internet social justice warrior cliques to redefine rolequeer as a subset of traditional BDSM practice, and then idlnmclean used it as a jumping off point to describe rolequeerness using a complex of mathematical and sociological language. […]
Let’s get one thing clear: Predator Alert Tool is not run by nor does it support sadomasochists.
16 Nov 2014 at 17:34
maymay
Myths and misconceptions, Politics of sex
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Note: I originally wrote this as a reblog of the post quoted below, but I want to ensure it shows up in Tumblr’s tracked tags and search results, so I’m cross-posting it from my blog using Tumblr Crosspostr, again. birdsy-purplefishes: Seeing a “predator alert tool†for social media sites run by kinksters is like seeing […]
Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid now warns of abusive dominants, like Jian Ghomeshi
27 Oct 2014 at 18:05
maymay
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I am happy to announce that I have just released an update to the Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid, bringing it up to version 0.5.3. This version fixes a few bugs in its auto-update functionality and, importantly, adds new red-flag questions to the default questionnaire in order to help users better protect themselves against predatory […]
