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Mr. Schneier and friends have created a new website to promote a change to the socio-economic technical milieu we are currently facing.
He suggests we need to have "public interest technologists" to help the situation.
He writes:
"We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists.
Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest.""
Is he right? How can this be implemented without becoming as riddled with government agents, spies and mafias as the key positions of our corporations and institutions are right now?
Full disclosure: this writer has been a public interest technologist for a while now and I have actually alluded to the need for something like what is being suggested on multiple occasions, 'a different kind of organization' is the way I put it, way back a few months ago.
Discuss.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Bot on Sunday October 13 2019, @09:48PM
Bruce has seen what happened to eich and stallman and wants to appease the sacred Enforcers Of The COC.
A technologist focused on social justice is like a DJ focused on farming.
The original GPL already bypassed any difference in creed, sex, politics and culture. Any modification to this means somewhere somebody will be LESS free. So there is nothing to focus on. Write FOSS, use FOSS, don't leech off public funds for nothing.
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