A pop-up alerts you when you are about to publish an offensive message: the invention has already been adopted in schools and districts
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Messages pop-up against bullying. It is not awareness campaigns, but ReThink, software that detects potentially offensive messages. When the extension recognizes that is being published content that could hurt someone else, notification, through a pop -up, that the words used may be offensive or harmful.
ReThink he was born from the idea of the 13 year old Trisha Prabhu, affected by a history of suicide of a 11 year old girl. Trisha and the team that created that have occurred with the use of software, the desire to send a message aggressive fell from 71% to 4%.
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Doing lectures or sermons, the notification mechanism simply with a “ReThink Alert”, which something does not . The user can decide to publish the message, but according to the research conducted, less than 10% decided to continue.
(Photo: Maurizio Pesce / Wired)
Currently ReThink is available as a free app on Android, and there is a version “community” for schools and districts.
Given the efforts against harassing attitudes carried out by the company – first of all Twitter not it would be strange to think of new additions to ReThink.
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