Linkspam: Just the Shovel Down, Ted

Brilliant analysis by Lisa Egan (a friend of mine) on the TEDx Sydney Stella's Challenge disaster

Points she picks out:
TEDx Sydney have erased all evidence of not just the screw-up, but of their apology. I'm not certain the apology was there for three whole days, it certainly wasn't there for four.

She managed to find the google cache of the original page with the questions TEDx were telling people they should ask disabled people as part of Stella's Challenge, which are far worse than I'd imagined. They would also have horrified Stella Young, who had spoken out against just that kind of questioning of disabled people.

They referred to Stella as a 'Person With a Disability', when she was explicit in her TED piece that she rejected the PWD label and followed the Social Model use of 'Disabled Person'.

Perhaps most seriously on an ethics basis, TEDx were encouraging paid carers to violate their duty of privacy towards their employer.

For supposedly smart people, TEDx Sydney really screwed this one up. And then they kept on digging.

Way past time for them to put the shovel down.