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>When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want other people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism. Your c
by ddevault 6y ago
>When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want other people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism.
Your comment smells like libertarianism. Exercising some influence over how others behave is not authoritarianism. You have to consider that (1) most users are ignorant of how the web works and are vulnerable to being exploited by those who are; and (2) that exploitation has a chilling effect on the rest of the open web.
Technology workers have an ethical obligation to be good stewards of the technology experienced by the techno-illiterate.
- raxxorrax 6y agoI think they have the obligation to give the "techno-illiterate" the possibility for growth beyond the diagnosed illiteracy and little else, basically the exact same tools the previous generation had until it got the understanding. Don't buy an iPad for your kid. It will just get dusty because it already has a phone, which can do the exact same things. Some people think computers are too complicated for kids. I think they themselves could use an outline instead.