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When I was sexually assaulted in 1998, it took me two and a half years to tell more than two people.

I just read the email below, and I’m uncomfortable because I want people to consider seriously any claim that a person has been subjected to sexual violence.

If you’re willing, the next time someone lets you know that he or she has been on the receiving end of sexual violence, please tell that person that he or she is not alone, say something like, “I trust you’ll tell me if I can do anything to help,” and then be quiet and listen.

Thanks.
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I was poking around this morning on a school district website, when I noticed a couple of links (on the “parents” page) to resources around online safety for kids. On a related page, there were a bunch of links to resources for the kids, and immediately this idea came to me.

What if a person could tell their browser, “yeah, I trust this website to give my kid links to pages he or she can safely visit”? What if you could also tell your browser, “I trust this page to tell me about other pages my kid can trust, too”? This quickly develops into a web-of-trust model, in which individual pages don’t vouch for themselves, but for each other. (more…)