[madPL] Trolls and the need for Allies

[alexandra.silva@xxxxxxxxx]

Dear all,Â

Yesterday I gave a talk at the Women in Logic workshop. It was a scientific talk with remarks at the end on being a woman in logic. The youtube stream was reported and taken down -- yesterday we were not sure when/why, butÂhere's the report from the organisers:

- What happened is that someone "flagged" the WiL video streaming
towards the end of Alexandra's talk (after the scientific part was
concluded).
Â- As soon as someone flags a video streaming, Youtube immediately
removes everything (and I mean _everything_, streaming, video file,
identifications) and sends a warning to the whole FSCD-IJCAR Channel.
This process is particularly automatic as human intervention is
minimized during the pandemic.
Â- We immediately made an Appeal to Youtube, but while the removal of
the content is automatized, the Appeal needs to be approved by humans.
Â- Today, we received the "Decision on your Video Appeal": "After
further review, we have reinstated your video.".

Summing up, we won the Appeal, but it is not very useful.

My personal opinion: someone raised a community complaint and flagged
the video as a hostile act towards the WiL workshop.
This is a further proof that you need to continue doing what you're doing!Â

I am really sad to see that some troll hates women so much he was monitoring the stream and waited for my "complaints" to start to take down the stream.Â

I feel very welcome at MadPL and I see a lot of you as Allies to women and otherÂminorities in theÂfield. Please continue being allies because as this shows the field has a long way to go to be really inclusive.Â

Cheers,

AlexandraÂ