From: Wendy Hanamura To: jtunney@gmail.com Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 11:22:17 -0800 Subject: Controversy about your speaking at DWeb Bay Area tonight Dear Justine, I am the senior organizer and producer of DWeb, and for eight years it's been my honor and pleasure to help steward this community dedicated to building a better Web. We invited you to speak tonight because your work is brilliant and your technology aligns with so much of what we are trying to achieve. However, many community members are raising your past statements in Twitter and some of your current disputes with Lobste.rs and llama.ccp as reasons to ask you to not speak at DWeb until you have accounted for your past beliefs. Without relitigating the past, I think this email sums up the path some community members would like to see you take: > Justine Tunney has not earned the right to be forgiven until she takes > accountability for her actions. ‘Behaving oddly on twitter’ in a > wikipedia page that doesn’t even list the incident with multiple news > articles about it, isn’t accountability. Evolution and growth can only > happen after ruthless honesty about what happened and why it happened > and what will be done about it in the future. After much consideration, **we are withdrawing our invitation tonight**, while leaving the door open in the future for an honest, transparent conversation with you. Our principles include this one about mutual respect: "We expect participants to remain mindful of, and take responsibility for, their speech and behavior, by acting out of respect for others and respecting physical and emotional boundaries.” I think the best possible path forward for us would be to allow you space to take responsibility for those 2014-15 statements, then move forward together. Of course, only you can determine what is best for your future trajectory. Please feel free to call me via my mobile if you would like to talk about this today or in the future. I'm truly sorry that we didn't have time to tackle this before tonight's event. With gratitude, Wendy *Wendy Hanamura* DWeb Executive Producer 415-561-6767 415-335-0895 (mobile) *Internet Archive* 300 Funston Ave San Francisco, CA 94118 *wendy@archive.org * SKYPE: wendy-archive @whanamura