Technology

37920 readers

55 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social

Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive? (substack.com)

submitted 3 days ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Excellent article by Afsaneh Rigot, author of the Design from the Margins methodology.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You’re right, I’m not really sure if I understand what the article is about. And how it translates to the title and us, the people.

Unfortunately, the headline is misleading. It's possible that the author chose it because gathering an audience by criticising "tech" is easy. It's also possible that she misunderstands the root of the issues she discusses. shrug

The only way I know of to solve the problem is to reclaim our governments, and reform them. Historically, that has been done through democracy and through revolution. The former approach is getting harder, and the way things are going, might disappear if we let them go unchecked for too long.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for explaining. I get that. Seems we're moving away from democracy and freedom these days. That's hard to tackle. And there's a multitude of reasons and dynamics at play. I've also learned at school we usually have reforms or revolution available. Plus a few successful forms of nonviolent resistance. Or civil war, war and a restart, continued oppression... We'll see. I hope for the best. But in my opinion freedom is a constant fight, even in "free" countries, it's not granted automatically or indefinitely.