The Guardian is running a blog series on American prisons. The most recent entry tackled prison rape in private facilities and discussed one ex-con’s fight for full disclosure on sexual assault statistics using his minority shareholding. That article is here and the link for the whole series to date is here.
The BBC’s Regional documentary strand, Inside Out for the East of England, ran a report in the past ten days about the possible future effects of the content that social network users post online. The report concentrated mainly on the effects on future careers for adults but the BBC’s Webwise site which was mentioned in the…
What I read in this matches what I see in real life. Some people spend a lot of time on social media doing things that are bad for their mental health. (Comparing their lives to the ultra-filtered images they see on social media, filling their feed with information that is bad for their mental health, etc.) while others use social media to connect with an online support network.
Given that, the calls for banning social media use for kids seem odd, but they are based on that being the easy thing. Blaming big tech will never be unpopular, and there is a possibility that some people might be better off not using social media as much.
“In the aftermath of the horrific episode, things went from bad to worst. Instead of sharing empathy with the victimized Imran, locals embarrassed him by sharing rumors about his “homosexual relationship” with Athar. The word spread like wildfire. “Boys started taunting me,” he says. “They thought it was a consensual relationship while as the truth…
Healing Tools That I Have Learned tags: CA Avoiding a Mental Illness Relapse During Family Gatherings tags: CA Exercise for Mental Health: Reasons to Start and Reasons to Stop tags: CA Doctor’s breakthrough offers hope to those who are sexually abused – Quincy, MA – The Patriot Ledger tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest…
“It would be a mistake, however, to focus our anger on one ignorant bigot. Bristow was giving crude form to attitudes which, for many male survivors, are all too familiar. The expectations that males – even young boys – can and should be able to fight off attackers is every bit as prevalent and as…
The tech world is alive with news that Google has helped locate and charge a predator based on scanning their email for child pornography images. Obviously, this is a case of a stupid criminal, if you’re going to share illegal images, using a cloud service provider that already admits to scanning email contents for keywords…
