The master’s tools will never advocate for digital rights
I rejoiced as I read about how the Digital Freedom Fund has revamped its leadership model.
All posts filed under: Professionalism
If your New Year’s resolution is to learn more, start here.
If you want to learn more about how the Internet is governed, and the role you might play in helping to keep it open, here's a course syllabus which will get you started.
Online harms are hard. Meet a woman who is harder.
Meet my friend Mika, whose four-year ordeal at the hands of a deranged and unaccountable stalker has influenced some of my thinking on policy. It should influence yours too.
Russian plugin, go fuck yourself
This week 43% of the sites on the open web were briefly breached by Russian military propaganda, and that is not even the worst part of it.
A peek behind a dark curtain
In an alternate timeline, I've quit my policy work to pose for a photo shoot for a front page broadsheet story about my fictional victimhood.
The missing pieces: teaching the legal side of web development
We are creating architects who have never heard of building codes, drivers who have never heard of the Highway Code, and doctors who have never heard of the Hippocratic oath.
What I learned in the Mozilla Open Leaders initiative
This week wraps up my training in the Mozilla Open Leaders initiative. It’s been an amazing, very intense 14 weeks of learning, all in support of the team in the cross-project CMS privacy group.
The era of sociopaths is over
The web can no longer be a career choice for people who want to work in a field where there are no obligations, no ethics, no rules, and no constraints.
How to defend the open web: a policy primer for open source projects
Open source projects can use our influence to shape the laws and policies which impact our work, and we can do so while defending ourselves, and each other, from the unintentional consequences of project misuse.
Pulling the plug on legal compliance plugins
I've worked to amend the WordPress.org plugin guidelines so that plugins can no longer claim to make a site legally compliant in any regulatory requirement.
Professional organisation: mission accomplished. Over to you.
To me, we have already achieved something I would not have imagined a year ago today: it is possible for developers and coders across a range of ages, levels of experience, employment scenarios, and political stances to realise that we have more in common than that which divides us.
The root of all of our problems; or, how to climb out of the rabbit hole
I truly believe that once everyone is willing to examine their own behavior, take responsibility for it, and commit to a different way forward, the bridge will begin to build itself.