Mastodawn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116700754648719001

I got a lot of “but it’s business people making programmers do this”, implying that software engineers want to be ethical but can’t.

That’s the software engineers who just stole the term “engineer” from another profession that has very strict certification requirements including mandatory ethics classes.

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Thomas Fuchs Jun 7

If as a programmer you never stand up and say “no” in order to protect users from unethical and harmful software you have failed at your job.

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Aethel

@thomasfuchs i did. I got a payrise and got kicked out a month later (classic c-level forward thinking and planning). I am also unionised. Next time rather than speaking out ill just sit quietly hoping it all fucking burns down and drags us with it.