Safety in Online Spaces
summary
GitHub’s Community and Safety team defines online safety as the ability to participate without fear of virtual or real‑world reprisal and gives concrete threats (doxxing, swatting) and traumas as real harms. The approach distinguishes microaggressions vs blatant harassment and uses different responses: ban block redact and legal escalation for blatant abuse, tooling plus coaching and educational interventions for microaggressions. Concrete findings include a dataset showing pull requests from women are accepted more when the username is gender‑neutral, and the team ships tools and training to change behavior over time.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:46GitHub’s role in safety
- 1:56Online harassment dangers
- 3:41Safety versus interaction
- 4:47Harassment types
- 7:16Responding to harassment
- 10:03Behavior change through empathy
- 12:54Build inclusive communities
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