Eleanor SaittaNov 14, 2022
Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.
Show threadOndřej PokornýNov 15, 2022

@dymaxion @blaine I'm even going as far as saying that tech IS politics. Tech is developing systems for humans to interact with each other, based on someone's values, different power structures dictating the rules etc. I see the parallels everywhere, big tech autocracies, people happily giving up freedoms for the shiny new gadget, delegating their own decisions to them etc.

https://social.unextro.net/@ondra/107605516765115997

Ondřej Pokorný (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I really believe it's time for people to realise that #tech IS #politics. Same principles that apply to #democracy are applicable to #technology. The true long-term solution is education of the general public, not the easy way of blindly trusting centralized authorities promising to do slightly better. In that sense I agree that Moxie really "doesn't get it". Mostly, he's just defending his design choices thru the lens of his confict of interest.

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Show threadAaron

@ondra @dymaxion @blaine

I'd rephrase it as, everything is political. It's not that anything is pure politics (other than politics itself) but that it touches everything all the time, and tech is no exception, as much as some people like to imagine it is.

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