That article has no relation to Hack Club whatsoever.
But that's beside the point - they provide rooms, plenty of food and snacks, workshops, and activities to do during breaks. Organizers are on-site at all times, and there is a live hotline for parents or kids to call at any time. "sit and code for 3 days straight" is a gross mischaracterization.
So again then, what exact "life threatening situations" could children be put in, besides the things parent already said it wasn't about, during these events? Parent themselves linked that article, I'm not 100% sure what they meant, but all I could think was that they experienced something similar, otherwise I'm not sure why they'd link that.
For all of you discussing the chatgpt, this was after borderline harassing an intern who quoted ChatGPT as a joke in her DMs. There was no legal advice. There used to be a previous version with receipts and screenshots if I remember correctly, with very, very extensive discussions within Hack Club (to the order of thousands of messages of critical discussion).
Please take what's said here with a grain of salt. This is the same person who attempted to extort Hack Club out of thousands by using an airtable token they previously had (all tokens have since been examined as to whether they are truly necessary).
> another asked: "if you found a security vulnerability within hackclub, severe or major, given how they have currently handled reports so far, would YOU report it and go through the same process and payouts that previous people have experienced?"
> the answer from most people was a resounding no.
Popular request is for the program to be expanded. I don't know about the "resounding no".
> teenagers are positioned as "independent contractors" to avoid employment protections, holiday pay, and wage floors. this isn't "scrappy nonprofit" energy - it's child exploitation dressed up as opportunity.
It isn't a full-time job.
> email compliance failures
Recently, email sending has been revamped, and there are tools to subscribe to individual mailing lists.
Criticism isn't ever censored - there's anonymous reporting, a public forum channel for feedback (which only has temporary threadlocks upon very inflammatory or irrelevant discussion), and you can discuss it anywhere else within the Slack.
I could keep going, but the raw truth is that this misses a lot of context for independent observers.
> This is the same person who attempted to extort Hack Club out of thousands by using an airtable token they previously had (all tokens have since been examined as to whether they are truly necessary).
I could be wrong, but I don't think that was OP.
> Popular request is for the program to be expanded. I don't know about the "resounding no".
Do a poll then. I for one agree with that and don't think that most people would report it.
> > teenagers are positioned as "independent contractors" to avoid employment protections, holiday pay, and wage floors. this isn't "scrappy nonprofit" energy - it's child exploitation dressed up as opportunity.
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> It isn't a full-time job.
It quite literally is?
> Recently, email sending has been revamped, and there are tools to subscribe to individual mailing lists.
That I'll give you. They did recently revamp that and make it be functional.
> Criticism isn't ever censored - there's anonymous reporting, a public forum channel for feedback (which only has temporary threadlocks upon very inflammatory or irrelevant discussion), and you can discuss it anywhere else within the Slack.
Not true. Thread locks are often for 6 months to a year and the posts often aren't even inflammatory, just anti-HQ.
Aren't Japanese homes super tiny? Even smaller than the already small homes and apartments in Europe? That's one reason. In the US, it seems that people live in bigger places, with higher ceilings.
HCB staff also do not take kindly to missing receipts or fraudulent behavior.
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