Tech companies need to start talking about spoken abuse

First it was blogs, then came the podcasts. Where we once used blackberry messenger, WhatsApp voice notes are now commonplace. Before we asked Alexa or Siri, it was Jeeves.The internet is there to make things easier, and for those of us that are able, what can be simpler than voicing our thoughts? The trouble is, as the Turkish sociologist and tech seer Zeynep Tufekci explained so eloquently, returning to an oral culture “is not suited to certain kinds of knowledge accumulation and legibility of the world”.Our institutions, which rely so heavily on the written and print culture, “will not hold without adjustment”, she warned. One new app in particular is helping to prove her point. A friend invited me to join the iPhone-only
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