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All projects by The Social Code run primarily on donations. Please consider becoming a supporter by making a one-time donation or becoming a patron.
Become a supporterThere's different ways you could help us get this non-profit project off the ground. For instance by becoming an active collaborator, ambassador or beta tester. We're also looking for volunteering developers with experience in machine learning, people that can help us with copy writing and PR, and people who can introduce us to organisations that are operating in the same field, as well as ones who could help us with funding.
But also - If you were on the receiving end of a non-consensual dick pic, please share a screenshot with us at dickpics@thesocialcode.com. Make sure the π screenshot also shows the username of the person who sent it to you (this will be stored securely and will not be made public) as well as the interface of the app or website you received it in.
Thank you for helping us! πͺ
The Social Code is an experiment. Itβs about finding alternative ways for raising money to create and offer technology-driven public services, and about sharing the benefits and any profits. We aim to decrease the large information and benefit gaps that exist between governments and businesses on one side, and people and citizens on the other side when it comes to why and how technology is used.
"The higher the number of people affected by a technology, the bigger the group of people β including those directly affected β that must be part of the decision-making processes surrounding the application of such technology."
Technology is all around us. And so are the limitations that are decided for us. Think about the way we express or educate ourselves on social media (excessive censorship), how we spent our hard-earned money (in the near future we risk restrictions through programmable money or CBDCs), what we do and where we move (location tracking and biometric identification), or how decide to co-exist (what are the moral justification of drone attacks to civilians in countries around the world). Or what about the technologies that are about to decimate or heavily alter many of the jobs currently in existence (A.I. like self-driving cars, image generators and services like ChatGPT). Is the way these technologies are being applied the best for all, or has there been a strong monetary or political incentive?
The Social Code is explicitly not against technology. On the contrary, itβs very much in favour of it and its potential for humankind. But how about we use the technology in such a way that all humans on this planet profit from it equally, instead of only the few who own it, have control over it, or those who aim to suppress.
The Social Code has high ambitions and aims to be part of a new economy. One that steps away from the traditional world of venture capital, investors, and shareholders. Not everything should have to revolve around making large amounts of money and around centralising profits. That way of thinking can lead β and has already clearly led β to bad incentives. Since we all share one home, letβs try making the most of it for all inhabitants of our planet, a society where all can participate equally. Weβll be better off in the long run.
In The coming months The Social Code will launch its first few projects ranging from privacy, to democratising technology, to improved sex education. I would love to collaborate with activists, educators, volunteers and foundations to turn this experiment into a viable alternative way of co-existing.
Letβs meet!
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Stop Dicking Around aims to grow awareness about the impact an unsolicited dick pic can have on the receiver. Not by merely blaming the sender, but offering and improving education.
Additionally, Stop Dicking Around aims to inspire (or publicly force!) the technology platforms that lower the bar for this behaviour to start offering real protection to its users. Not in the form of even more censorship, but by means of *opt-in* where the user β not the platform, itβs shareholders, or its business partners β decides if they want to enable those protective measures.
