Comment on Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive?
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days agoYou’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 it go for too long.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 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.