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_hplx··on Ask HN: How can a programmer help with current events?
I have no interest in sowing misinformation to support my beliefs, if that's what you're worried about. Otherwise I still don't really understand your point.
_hplx··on Ask HN: How can a programmer help with current events?
For what it's worth I personally do think that the focus on race is missing the bigger point, which is police brutality and impunity. They've been beating up white people too.
_hplx··on Ask HN: How can a programmer help with current events?
It's an enormous stretch to call delicate speech about my personal convictions "misinformation". Anyway, my only intent is to help people, not add to the conflict. It's just that I believe the police have dropped all pretense of sharing that goal of helping people.
_hplx··on Ask HN: How can a programmer help with current events?
I was trying to be diplomatic. It's my belief that the police have decided to make themselves adversarials of virtually everyone else.
_hplx··on Ask HN: How can a programmer help with current events?
> Your local police department...can help point you to some

Sorry if I wasn't clear, but to put it lightly, I do not plan on asking the police for suggestions.

That said I think the rest of the ideas are valid.

> Data can be a positive tool to keep everyone

I agree, but data solutions are tricky because there's so much misinformation going on right now. It's really easy for data to be fabricated (other than video (kind of)), and even if it's not, people would (rightly) be cautious to trust it. Data validation might be an interesting problem to tackle but I don't know how you solve that with tech.