#CivilWeb

We are the comments we make.

Join us on June 10th as we launch the #CivilWeb movement online, show your support, help us spread the word. Let’s make the web more civil together.

Ask yourself

What if there was no screen between us?
What if we judged ideas, instead of each other?
Would we listen to understand, rather than to reply?
Would we talk as if our kids were listening?
Would we offer dignity, even if we didn’t agree?
What if we fought for respectful debate?
What if democracy depended on it?

Why you should care

People talked to each other way before the internet. We spoke around campfires, dinner tables, and in town halls, we wrote letters and sent each other telegrams. But as the world evolved and with it, the technology which makes communication simpler, the way we speak to each other has become often careless, crass and even abusive.

People talked to each other before the internet. We spoke around campfires, dinner tables, and in town halls, we wrote letters and sent each other telegrams.

But as the world evolved and with it, the technology which makes communication simpler, the way we speak to each other has become often careless, crass, and even abusive.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Now is the time to make a stand for a better, more tolerant society that starts with a civil web. To create a space where everyone can voice their ideas and opinions, no matter what those are, freely and without fear of abuse.

are, freely and without fear of abuse.

Each of us has the power to effect change, and our collective voice can move mountains.

Now is the time to make a stand for a better, more tolerant society that starts with a civil web. To create a space where everyone can voice their ideas and opinions, no matter what those are, freely and without fear of abuse.

Each of us has the power to effect change, and our collective voice can move mountains.

About the #CivilWeb movement

The #CivilWeb movement aims to raise awareness to toxicity and incivility, to empower individuals to take the web back from the trolls, and to hold ourselves and one another to a higher standard of interaction.

Our goal is to build a community of advocates and to develop solutions that empower and strengthen civility online. To create a better, more civil web, for a better, more civil society.