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“part of what we're seeing now is something that looks like this, where the president's saying, I'm not a #lawyer, and where the #lawyers are saying, we just work for the #president. It's an effort […] on the part of both of these sets of individuals to deflect #accountability.”

pbs.org/newshour/show/what-the

PBS News · What the Constitution says about noncitizens’ rights as Trump doubts need for due processBy Amna Nawaz

The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them.

An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring body cameras.
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ProPublicaThe DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them.
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Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX
Catharine R. Stimpson

"This history shows that people opposed to discrimination, like feminists, cannot rely on the law alone. Too often the law is unstable. We need a new code of ethics, rooted in feminist principles, the “New Decorum.”"

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Centered Self-Accountability
Shannon Perez-Darby
Accountable Communities Consortium

"It’s about asking yourself these questions:
What happened?
What was going on for me at the time?
What am I going to do about it?

We all want so badly to do it perfectly, to be people who will never mess up so that we would never have to be the ones who were wrong, we want people to apologize to us but we often struggle in being the ones who need to apologize."

accountablecommunities.com/wri

Accountable Communities ConsortiumCentered Self-Accountability — Accountable Communities ConsortiumCentered self-accountability requires getting to that grounded, rooted and balanced place from which to make observations about what you did so you can make decisions about what you will do in response to the situation, what you will take responsibility for and how.
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The problem that needs to be solved is that systems of #accountability and appellate process need to be baked into the code of social communications applications, but it seems that computer #programmers do not understand why these features are essential for responsible operations.

Unfortunately, the attitude of #FOSS #developers seems to be, "If you don't like it, code it yourself." This is not how advanced societies function or come about. Specialization and division of labor are important.

The #Fosstodon controversy is an excellent example of why the #decentralization of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse is not a panacea and not a substitute for #Justice.

As I have said on numerous occasions, what the world needs is broad agreement on comprehensive professional #moral, #ethical, #legal, and #procedural #standards for the operation of public private spaces that includes a firm commitment to #Equality and mechanisms for community and legal #accountability and an #appellate #process.