Debate around @jack @twitter ban makes it timely to re-up my open letter to Prince Harry: There's A Simple Solution To Design Safer, More Inclusive Social Media @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media tl;dr - when it's designed through the lens of those of us most at risk from it
'The young white male founders of Giant Tech are not the primary targets of harassment, abuse, racism, sexual assault, violence, rape, revenge porn. So they didn’t, and they don’t, proactively design for the prevention of any of those things.'
@FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
@FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
'Those of us who are at risk every day—women, Black people, POC, LGBTQ, the disabled—design safe spaces, and safe experiences. When we get access to the same levels of funding and support that white men do, we deliver what you’re looking for.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
'Little nudges and prompts at just the right point can have a disproportionately beneficial approach. We design to stop harassment and abuse before it ever happens.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media #FundFemaleFounders #FundBlackFemaleFounders #FundOfColorFemaleFounders
'But we don’t get funded to start platforms that don't foment racism and violence, build them, grow them, scale them. Only 2.8% of all venture funding goes to female-founded businesses. Only 0.2% goes to businesses founded by Black women.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
'I joined @Linkedin in June 2006. That means I have 14 years’ worth of experience of the male harassment and abuse of women that runs rampant on the world’s biggest so-called “professional” platform.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media #FundFemaleFounders
'I’ve tried to get @LinkedIn to take action to change this, with no success. That’s because, like every other white-male-founded platform that was never designed for the lived experiences of those of us who are “other,” LinkedIn requires us to report it.' https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
'So I posted on @LinkedIn to suggest a change:
"I have three quick, easy, simple product design tweaks I wish LinkedIn to implement immediately."....No one has reached out to me directly, and my recommendations have not been implemented.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
"I have three quick, easy, simple product design tweaks I wish LinkedIn to implement immediately."....No one has reached out to me directly, and my recommendations have not been implemented.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
'Imagine brands/advertisers supporting female-founded platforms that provide the opportunity to target consumers in a digital environment actively designed for her, with a business model focused on keeping her and her loved ones safe. That’s what we build' https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
'My own startup, @makelovenotporn, addresses one of the biggest areas of fallout caused by the explosion of the male-dominated internet today.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media #sextech #FundFemaleFounders #FundBlackFemaleFounders #FundSextechFemaleFounders #realworldsex
'My team and I spent years conceiving and designing @makelovenotporn before we built it to ensure it would be a safe and trustworthy space. MLNP operates unlike any other site on the internet because it's designed around human curation.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media
' @LinkedIn hasn’t implemented my design nudges, but I made sure my own startup does. Every comment box on @makelovenotporn carries the line, “Please, keep it positive.” (We’ve not yet had to censor a single comment.)' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media #sextech
'We’ve been ready for years because that’s how long many of us have been building platforms that “place community and connection, tolerance and empathy, and joy and kindness above all,” and yet we can’t get funded.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media #FundFemaleFounders
'When the leaders and institutions you’re calling on fund, support, and champion us—founders who are female, BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled, from other underrepresented groups—you’ll see how very different the world your children grow up in will be.' @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90539655/dear-prince-harry-theres-a-simple-solution-to-design-safer-more-inclusive-social-media