@ilumium A reasonable #BuyEuropean mandate makes absolute sense. The FCC-example (for itβs BuyAmerican counterpart) is NOT reasonable, itβs what you get when you marry incompetence with ideology and corruption and label it as Divine Will.
Just keep rightwing tech-illiterates out of the equation, and things could truly thrive.
#corruption #MAGAFailure #incompetence #illiteracy #TechIlliteracy
"About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/geography-survey-illiteracy
coincidence?
@pluralistic thus I coined the term "#TechLiteracy" (or lack thereof as "#TechIlliteracy").
Thus I see it as both moral and social duty to spread "Tech-Literacy" among society because decades of #illiteracy in #tech are now paying dividends and #Cyberfascists actively work on sabotaging and destroying #HumanRights and #CivilRights under #FalsePretenses lile "#YouthProtection" (see "#AgeVerification")β¦
@GrahamDowns Possibly, the reasons of such behaviour are described in this blogpost: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
Big tech invested a lot to make people illiterate and unable to ask help from another people. If at 90s someone met a requirement "open the console and run this command to make XYZ", in the README, then (s)he perform this action because (s)he knows how the things work. Or ask some friends β definitely there will be some nerd, sleeping with "K&R C" under the pillow π
Then nowadays, possibly the mostly expected scenario β well-learned behaviour β a lot of ramblings in the so-called "social networks" about how programmers "gatekeeping" users from using the programs π€·ββοΈ
Nice to know our commerce secretary would flunk a basic test on percentages:
No one should ever take an American seriously. They quite literally have the cognitive capacity of children.
- "The Literacy Project reports that the average American reads at a 7th to 8th-grade level."
- "Over half of American adults (54%) read below a sixth-grade level."
- "Almost 1 in 5 adults reads below a third-grade level, showing significant gaps in reading ability."
#literacy #illiteracy #america #uspol
https://www.sparxservices.org/blog/us-literacy-statistics-literacy-rate-average-reading-level
@vkc also #teach others more #TechLiteracy.
We need to eradicate #TechIlliteracy (& #MediaIlliteracy!) the same way #Illiteracy in henersl gets fought against!
GonoMobil
Albert Cardona
GrrlScientist β§ β πΊπ¦
Kevin Karhan 
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Paul Masson
Prgauthier
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Dr Susi Arnott