[Noisebridge-discuss] Safe Space

[Christoph Maier]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:06 AM Anthony Faber <antfaber at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> When did this happen? I want details?
>
> Anthony Faber

Your curiosity is understandable, but I need to consider a tradeoff here.

Nearly everything that matters is a side effect.

This is a localized problem of breakdown of communication under the
pretext of "providing safe space"
that makes communication of a crucially important subject impossible
in a local context,
and as a consequence, makes the local space very unsafe.

Given the network and feedback effects in any kind of social media,
starting with open mailing lists, and escalating to completely open
corporate mass media like facebook and twitter,
disclosing details, outside the context where the details happened,
might lead to something called "context collapse" ¹ ²,
i.e., it will be accidentally or deliberately misconstrued as,
eventually, a casus belli ³.
See
¹ https://twitter.com/Tatzelbrumm/status/970310327744319488
² https://bitbucket.org/tatzelbrumm/contextcollapse/src/videos/
and
³ https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Session:Why_Does_War_Happen%3F

Even if the adverse side effects of an attempt to block communication
locally are so serious
that the predictable adverse side effects of public disclosure are an
acceptable risk,
acting responsibly mandates that I first try to reestablish local communication
before bypassing the local communication blockage, with the associated
risk of artificial escalation and drama.

For all I know, you could be just any random homo faber.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Faber_(novel) ]

And
(in the context of the rather collapsible "safe space" noisebridge and
noisebridge-discuss)
that's all I have to say about that.

Christoph
trying DE-escalation by communication first.

> On Thursday, January 3, 2019, 12:21:29 AM PST, Christoph Maier <cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> A safe space, per definitionem, is a space where  f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ one is
> safe from more or less random, or even vindictively directed,
> accusations like
> "someone who shall remain anonymous to protect their privacy feels
> uncomfortable, so you need to leave immediately".
>
> Happy New Year from Mitch Altman's place in Berlin.
> Christoph
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