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Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 13 2019, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the last-throes-of-public-culture dept.

jmichaelhudsondotnet writes:

https://public-interest-tech.com/

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @05:08AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @05:08AM (#906842)

    You seem to think that your amusement is harmless.

    It's not.

    It's exactly the kind of trolling that helps entrench and embitter opposition to exactly the kind of policy that you espouse.

    HTH. HAND.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 14 2019, @05:29AM

    by c0lo (156) on Monday October 14 2019, @05:29AM (#906845) Journal

    It's exactly the kind of trolling that helps entrench and embitter opposition to exactly the kind of policy that you espouse.

    I espouse... what?
    Apologies, mate, at my age I can boast more ex-spouses than policies that I espouse. Nowadays, I tend to let the younger generation pick what they think is good for them (they'll regret it later anyway).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @03:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @03:14PM (#906961)

    Lol, trolling about taxes is what finally offends these "very fine people."

    Can't say I'm surprised, still pretty cringe inducing. Racism, sexism, hate, cruelty, all fine. But don't. Touch. Their. Greeeeeeeed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @10:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @10:39PM (#907147)

      You can also try:
      - deplatforming by social media is an undeniable right. Unless you want to say your right to free speech is above their right to private property; but think how do you like their right to free speech to beat your right to private property.

      - if you want to experience what a small government means, take a trip to Somalia

      - how have you kept lately your government in check with "muh guns"?

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 14 2019, @03:42PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 14 2019, @03:42PM (#906974) Homepage Journal

    Nah, I enjoy his trolling. It does amuse.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.