When a programmer shut down a hospital website to defend a sick girl, he raised a crucial question: What are the bounds of protest in the digital age?

in #hacker7 years ago

One afternoon in a modest, hilltop home in West Hartford, Connecticut, Linda Pelletier, a sandy-blond mother of four, opened a greeting card from her 15-year-old daughter, Justina. To her surprise, a small, intricately folded piece of paper slipped out from inside. It was an origami fortune teller.
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Pelletier poked her thumbs and forefingers under the flaps, spread them apart, then unfolded the flap that faced her. A chill shot through her as she read the message, written as tiny as her daughter's handwriting would allow: "I'm being tortured."
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'What are the bounds of protest' you said. this is digital, their are no boundaries, they are not seeing the emotional discord at face value, they are disconnected from the eventuality, therefore we just have a global wargames of emotional discord where anybody with a buffer exploit can damage at a very core human level. we need to rediscover out empathy towards each other aside from the wielding of the digital tools.

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