Stop Harassment is a project by Uplift: Online Communities Against Sexual Violence attempting to solve the problem of harassment that many people experience once they reach a certain point of popularity online. This disproportionately affects more women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ individuals and these harassers work to silence these populations.
Though online platforms offer the ability to block specific harassing users, blocking one user only results in 5 more coming on to join their place.
The problem is the harassing content, not the users, so the solution needs to lie in the content itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6UqXjn9Cd0
- Basic UI for the Chrome Extension that allows users to put words in their blacklist and choose whether they're filtering out or not
- Integration with Watson's API to analyze the sentiment of words and remove posts containing harassing uses of the word
- Works for Twitter and YouTube
- Integration with HackHarassment's harassment classifier
- Extensive settings for users (see UX in presentation) allowing the user to add additional words, whitelist users, and show hidden tweets
- Firefox and Safari extensions
- Hide harassing images
- Solution for Mobile
- Support for Facebook, Tumblr, etc.
This project began at the Lesbians Who Tech Social Good Hackathon on 9/24/16. ###Contributors:
- Christine Liao (Tech Lead, HTML, CSS, Javascript, overall design)
- Christine Chapman (Project Management / Uplift Representative)
- Bejal Lewis (Javascript)
- Seunglee Lee (Javascript)
- Bradley Dettmer (Javascript)
- Sam Hankins (UX Design)
- Katherine Hanson (UX Design)
- Taylor Banning (Data Analysis)