@Woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse - Revision history

Woozle: Woozle moved page Woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse to @Woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse: decided it should work this way

2023-07-02T19:19:50Z

Woozle moved page Woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse to @Woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse: decided it should work this way

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Woozle: Woozle moved page Pub/user/woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse to Woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse: eliminating "pub", and also "user" subfolder

2022-11-12T15:14:55Z

Woozle moved page Pub/user/woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse to Woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse: eliminating "pub", and also "user" subfolder

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Woozle: formatting for principles-block

2018-04-07T12:57:00Z

formatting for principles-block

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	: ''I strive to evaluate first in terms of potential harm.''		: I strive to evaluate first in terms of potential harm.
	: ''I strive to ~~keep my emotions on hold~~ until I have all the facts.''		: I strive not to decide until I have all the facts.
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	I'm working towards a redesigned process of justice.		I'm working towards a redesigned process of justice.

Woozle: Woozle moved page Pub/user/woozle/2018/04/03/justice in the fediverse to Pub/user/woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse without leaving a redirect: make it today's date

2018-04-05T19:08:43Z

Woozle moved page Pub/user/woozle/2018/04/03/justice in the fediverse to Pub/user/woozle/2018/04/05/justice in the fediverse without leaving a redirect: make it today's date

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Woozle: I guess this is finished?

2018-04-05T19:07:44Z

I guess this is finished?

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	** what are the limits of the actions I may take?		** what are the limits of the actions I may take?

	'~~'writing in progress''~~		There are many different reasonable answers to these questions; I'm going to try to set out some for me to follow as admin of toot.cat.
	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
	<references>		<references>

Woozle: Created page with " : ''I strive to evaluate first in terms of potential harm.'' : ''I strive to keep my emotions on hold until I have all the facts.'' I'm working towards a redesign..."

2018-04-04T21:56:19Z

Created page with "<big> : ''I strive to evaluate first in terms of potential harm.'' : ''I strive to keep my emotions on hold until I have all the facts.'' </big> I'm working towards a redesign..."

New page

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: ''I strive to evaluate first in terms of potential harm.''
: ''I strive to keep my emotions on hold until I have all the facts.''
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I'm working towards a redesigned process of justice.

What I've come up with isn't as radically revisioned as what I'd like to do in the long run, but I don't have the tools for that yet.

Traditional justice systems are usually based on hierarchies – something that has harmed many of us and which I believe most of us want to move away from. Justice should empower us all equally. Ideally, a system of justice would rely more on rallying our common sense of empathy<ref name=sydney /> to create the authority necessary to exercise power against malicious acts.

To do that, we need tools that let us nurture and empower empathy, and disempower selfishness. We're not there yet.

What we do have now is:
* a fediverse, with a very simple and fairly short hierarchy: instance admins on the upper layer and regular users on the lower, with relatively minor and variable differences in power on each level, and
* this wiki, in which I hope we can build a copyable navigation aid for uncertain waters – a reference index, a catalog of findable landmarks.

It has fallen naturally to the instance admins to administer justice – and yet we barely have the seeds of a set of best practices. We've done well crafting our Codes of Conduct to define the responsibilities of our users – but recent events have shown that we need Codes of Justice, to define (and limit) the responsibilities of our admins. Power must be accountable, and must be earned through its use in the service of the disempowered<ref name=banazi /> or else it is illegitimate.

A Code of Justice needs to be able to answer certain questions:
* As a user, how can I seek redress for harm done to me?
* As an admin —
** under what circumstances am I enabled to act?
** under what circumstances do I have some moral obligation to act?
** what are the limits of the actions I may take?

''writing in progress''
==Footnotes==
<references>
<ref name=sydney>Apparently I now have a Sydney head-squirrel because I'm hearing strenuous objections to the idea that we could ever rely on any such thing, especially not now, and she's really quite skeptical that such a thing really exists in the first place, so the idea of depending on it for our safety is really kind of hecking scary. I'm... not ignoring her, but deferring that discussion for a later time; my statement was speculative and I agree we're not ready to go there yet.</ref>
<ref name=banazi>This is essentially why we penalize instances that enable right-wing propaganda: they are failing in their service to the disempowered. They fail to protect the weak from the strength of induced collective hostility.</ref>
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