lizzy مثلية الله ☭  Oct 16
i think at some point we need to recognize that the deliberate oversimplification of technology and our understanding of and interaction with it is an integral part of what keeps people dependent on tech corporations; that real software freedom is impossible without education and media literacy; and that labeling people who promote ways of using technology that enable & encourage actual comprehension and choice as "elitist" is an active attempt at keeping the general public in their dangerously uneducated state.

the easiest way to keep people subservient is to keep them dumb. knowledge is power; and we should have power over the tools that we spend the majority of our waking hours with instead of them having power over us.

RE: https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/115383414643559768
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@[email protected] yes, absolutely. And as I've grown up and learned technology before this trend, I could actually see it evolve and it's effects on people. It was a concerted, conscious effort by tech giants to make people not learn things, entirely on purpose.

My brother, who is 11 years younger than me, is a bright young man, but he has zero of the tech skills that I know. I had to teach him some pretty basic stuff that I grew up doing, simply because he had no need or avenue to do those things when he was younger and learning tech.

The industry wants everyone to be like the grandmas who click on anything without question. At least we were able to teach our grandmas to not do that.
Oct 18 at 2:55pmWeb