Jun 28, 2018Free speech, censorship and the Oxford UnionPosted on May 31, 2018 by Heather Marsh I was invited last year to speak at the Oxford Union, and the event, held last February, perfectly illustrates the current faux debate between hate speech and free speech. The Oxford Union is the self-proclaimed “world’s most prestigious debating society” and “last…Oxford8 min readOxford8 min read
Jun 28, 2018Transcript of Whistleblowing Panel censored by Oxford UnionPosted on May 31, 2018 by Heather Marsh This is a transcript and audio of what I said at the Whistleblowing panel that was censored by the Oxford Union. I was informed by Oxford Union bursar Lindsay Warne that the Standing Committee and then-president Laali Vadlamani had censored the panel…Oxford18 min readOxford18 min read
Nov 19, 2017Binding Chaos Chapter 2: The problems with democracyBinding Chaos Chapter 2: The problems with democracy Excerpted from Binding Chaos: https://www.amazon.com/Binding-Chaos-collaboration-global-scale/dp/1489527680/ref=pd_rhf_pe_p_t_1_CWPB The problems with democracy By Heather Marsh Around the world, people lamenting the demise of democracy, or fighting for the birth of ‘true’ democracy need to take a closer look. Democracy is a universally failed concept, not because we have not implemented it properly but because the ideas were…Politics10 min readPolitics10 min read
May 9, 2017The evolution of democracyPosted on May 9, 2017 by Heather Marsh Transcript (more or less) from The evolution of democracy: Explaining Trump, Brexit and the Colombia peace deal, a keynote at Inteligencia Colectiva para la Democracia’ in Madrid, 2016. My name is Heather Marsh. I am a writer and a programmer and…Heather Marsh24 min readHeather Marsh24 min read
Apr 20, 2017The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governanceBinding Chaos Chapter 1: Defining boundaries — Excerpted from Binding Chaos: https://www.amazon.com/Binding-Chaos-collaboration-global-scale/dp/1489527680/ref=pd_rhf_pe_p_t_1_CWPB Defining boundaries By Heather Marsh The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. If there was ever a need for political representation or a paternalistic and opaque authority, it has been removed by technology. Every political system we have tried has…Heather Marsh6 min readHeather Marsh6 min read
Published in Anonymous·Apr 14, 2017Mastodon, Getgee and the decentralized data movementPosted on April 14, 2017 by Heather Marsh From Diaspora and GNU Social to Cimba and Mastodon, increasingly sophisticated alternatives keep offering to move the public off of the data harvesting platforms that manipulate people and sell their personal data. No one should be gifting their innermost thoughts to states…Open Source8 min readOpen Source8 min read
Apr 12, 2017Transcript from talk about GetgeePosted on April 25, 2016 by Heather Marsh Donate The short version of this talk is that we don’t need to rewrite any of the existing social media applications that are out there like Twitter, or Facebook, or Google or any of the rest of them. The reason I’d like…Open Source21 min readOpen Source21 min read
Published in Anonymous·Apr 12, 2017Welcome to Getgee: The Universal DatabaseGetgee: Tools for self-governance Part 1 Donate The Getgee project G is a universal database and trust network which can be used for the most popular software applications today. Technology corporations have lately become incredibly wealthy and powerful by controlling and exploiting access to the information we all create. These corporations abuse the control they exercise over…Open Source20 min readOpen Source20 min read
Apr 12, 2017The revolutionariesPosted on November 18, 2014 by Heather Marsh The last shall be the first and the first last. — Frantz Fanon The objective of a revolutionary is to keep everything exactly as it was but replace those in power with themselves, to become what they hate, to gain the approval…Heather Marsh9 min readHeather Marsh9 min read
Apr 12, 2017The IdentitariansPosted on February 26, 2017 by Heather Marsh In the age of mass media, the unfamiliar can even include our own selves. With a constant parade of powerful caucasian men occupying all media, particularly in a population whose social training is provided by media, women and indigenous people could learn…Heather Marsh14 min readHeather Marsh14 min read
