switching.social
"Being a dev is not intrinsically political."
...with the best will in the world, this isn't true any more, not in the social media age.
A long time ago, being an atomic scientist was once seen as a purely academic profession with no connection to politics or ethics.
switching.social
To mangle a famous phrase, "you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you".
Social media is innately political, and so is development work around it, because it affects who can use it and how their message can spread.
Social networks are now, whether we like it or not, powerful political weapons, and those who design weapons bear some responsibility for how they are likely to be used.
laurelai
@switchingsocial @rugk @dublinux @mastalab It was never true in the first place. IBM helped the nazis with computers so they could kill people faster.
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