{"id":4546,"date":"2016-06-13T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:50:09","slug":"death-in-orlando-and-what-else-we-could-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/death-in-orlando-and-what-else-we-could-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Death in Orlando and What Else We Could Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pre-Summit “Builders’ Day” where leaders of all races and generations share findings and innovations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tattoos, weird clothes, tee shirts with funny pictures on them, pink hair, long hair, scruffy\u00a0hair, sticker-saturated computers\u00a0— and<\/em>\u00a0brilliance, geek humor, and deep respect for one another over generation, \u00a0gender, gender identification, religion and race:\u00a0that was what I saw last week at the Internet Archive Decentralized Web Summit<\/a>*\u00a0— called\u00a0partly to discuss\u00a0the technology and ethical questions behind\u00a0an increasingly\u00a0centralized Web.<\/p>\n

I kept thinking all weekend\u00a0about this diverse crew of genius conference attendees as\u00a0the\u00a0horror of the Orlando shootings unfolded. \u00a0With it will come the inevitable racial and religious\u00a0generalizations\u00a0and this international crew of brainiacs included probably 20% \u00a0who, because of name or skin color or accent face a higher likelihood\u00a0of reflexive suspicion, \u00a0potential online monitoring, extra security checks at airports, and frightened glances in elevators, Starbuck’s and movie lines.<\/p>\n

Over the next weeks and months, we must decide\u00a0how our country should\u00a0respond to what is clearly an increasing threat, especially since mainstream security experts\u00a0have implied\u00a0a need for more\u00a0surveillance, not only in person and through interviews but also online.<\/p>\n

I have no answers\u00a0and\u00a0am barely fluent in the technologies powering these surveillance tools so there’s very\u00a0little I can add either to this question or the sad jeopardy into which it may place so many of my new conference friends. \u00a0For me though, it’s another\u00a0\u00a0– and very important –\u00a0ripple in the pool of our outrage.<\/p>\n

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*New Connections<\/b>\r\nWe are bringing together a diverse group of Web architects, activists, engineers, archivists, scholars, journalists, and other stakeholders to explore the technology required to build a Decentralized Web and its impact.\r\n\r\nCall to action<\/b>\r\nThe current Web is not private or censorship-free. It lacks a memory, a way to preserve our culture\u2019s digital record through time. The Decentralized Web aims to make the Web open, secure and free of censorship by distributing data, processing, and hosting across millions of computers around the world, with no centralized control.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Tattoos, weird clothes, tee shirts with funny pictures on them, pink hair, long hair, scruffy\u00a0hair, sticker-saturated computers\u00a0— and\u00a0brilliance, geek humor, and deep respect for one another over generation, \u00a0gender, gender identification, religion and race:\u00a0that was what I saw last week at the Internet Archive Decentralized Web Summit*\u00a0— called\u00a0partly to discuss\u00a0the technology and ethical questions behind\u00a0an … Continue reading Death in Orlando and What Else We Could Lose<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,6,27,9,98,51],"tags":[3877,2812,3876,1741,3880,3875,3878,3883,3879,1196,1979,3881,3882,2140],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-religion","category-webtech","tag-dwebsummit","tag-microblogmonday","tag-decentralized-web-summit","tag-gender","tag-homophobia","tag-internet-archive","tag-orlando","tag-profiling","tag-pulse","tag-race","tag-terrorism","tag-transitioning","tag-tsa","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-1bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}