short note on "internet is a sensetive tool"....
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Students have created a digital tool to help sensitive colleagues navigate the internet without the risk of being offended.
The Soothe browser extension was designed by Nikola Draca and Angus McLean at the University of Ottawa to help users to avoid “triggers”. Their algorithm blocks potentially distressing words based on context and should, in theory, block them only where they are being used with offensive intent. Users can choose to block homophobic, racist, sexist, transphobic, violent and sexually violent phrases.
Mr Draca, 22, a computer science student, told the Gazette website: “We had a friend in high school who was suffering from severe post-traumatic stress, and she asked if we knew of a product that does what Soothe does. At the time there wasn’t anything this sophisticated available. Existing extensions required users to manually enter terms, which is a really tedious and often inaccurate process. We aren’t trying to censor the internet, so we’ve added a feature where you can click to reveal text that has been blurred out.
“About 60 per cent of the content our extension catches is in the comments section of YouTube, which is pretty alarming. And about 55 per cent of that content is homophobic.”
The free extension blocks any offensive comments on the user’s screen as soon as they are published on sites such as YouTube and Facebook. In future the creators intend to enable Soothe to also block images and video.
The risk of being triggered preoccupies some students, who seek “safe spaces” from offensive views. English literature students at Cambridge University found “trigger warnings” on last year’s timetables when lectures mentioned potentially distressing works. The university said warnings were at the lecturer’s discretion.
King’s College London hired “safe space marshals” to police events and take “immediate action” if anyone expressed opinions breaching the student union’s safe space policy. The marshals were present at a talk by the Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who said that their presence was “antithetical to free speech”.
Despite the controversy around trigger warnings, experts agree that hate-speech remains a problem online and social media companies are failing to enforce policies to protect users.
Internet is like a fire.. It can be used to lit the gas in the kitchen which is used to cook..otherwise it can be used to set ablaze the house where we live. It is based on the individual's use.
We can secure our details in the internet..
1. Web browsing
2. Encryption
3. E-mail
4. Cloud services
5. File storage and archieving
6. Social networking
7. Search engines
8. Personal security and account management
9. Location data
10. Wireless services