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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: 3, Disagree) by darkfeline on Sunday October 13 2019, @10:16PM (5 children)
I can't take anyone who uses "social justice" seriously. What is social justice? It's vigilantism, plain and simple. Historically, all vigilantism has achieved is racial or other prejudiced forms of lynching. It used to be witches and blacks. Now it's straight white males, the "privileged", people with contrary opinions, "incels", conservatives (and I say that as someone who would probably be classified as more liberal than conservative) etc.
Take your social justice and get out.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @02:41AM (1 child)
Social justice means taking TMB's money and redistributing them to the poor for a greater common good.
Even Plato agreed this is a Good Thing™
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 14 2019, @03:46PM
S'true. He had to visit Delphi to do so but he named me specifically. He was a dick. S'why I prefer Socrates. That and his appearance in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @07:16AM
You may start here, for example [lmddgtfy.net]
False. Go back to the link above, it's a cheap and effective way of learning nowadays.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @05:31PM
Then what are your ethics? You have them, even if you cannot describe them.
I can't take people who aren't familiar with what their ethical position is seriously. It's fuck-youism, plain and simple.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:19PM
It is the religion of the Jesuits, the black ops wing of the Vatican spy service. Their goal is to place everything under the absolute rule of the Pope so that the Pope can give any ridiculous order like "you will call this man in a dress a woman" and you will have to follow it. The Vatican's bankers are the Rothschilds. So in short:
1. They're spies and criminals
2. They're working for the richest motherfuckers on the planet
3. They're loyal to a foreign power
4. This is treason and they need to be shot