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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

People can use whatever platform they want, but institutions, as Lawrie Phipps writes, "institutions have a duty of care towards our students, staff and communities." Recommending that they use toxic services to access important information appears to be a violation of that duty of care. "Colleagues," writes Phipps, "Twitter is not going to get less toxic (and) your use of it supports it. We need to reconsider our engagement with platforms that compromise the well-being and safety of our communities."

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