“Nikola Draca, a third-year statistics student, and his colleague, Angus McLean, 23, an engineering student at McGill University, put their heads together to develop an extension called Soothe for the Google Chrome web browser that blurs out homophobic, racist, sexist, transphobic and other hateful language while browsing the web.” Source
I thought this was interesting, because:
- It’s yet another example of how student work can contribute meaningfully to society
- It attempts to take back (some) control from platforms, and enable individuals to refine the experiences they have online
Related initiatives include the following:
- Google hiring people to clean up YouTube (Thanks to Patrick Lowenthal for sending this along)
- The dark side of Guardian comments
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