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> Why does #BlackLivesMatter stoke heated division among HN users? Simply because it is a political issue, on which people might have different opinions. And

> Why does #BlackLivesMatter stoke heated division among HN users? Simply because it is a political issue, on which people might have different opinions. And since that specific issue is not related to tech at all, it just causes conflict without any benefit. While honoring the death of some generally respected figure in our field is hopefully less controversial and more informative.

shadowgovt 5y ago
> And since that specific issue is not related to tech at all Black Lives Matter is heavily interwoven with the sousveillance effect... As cameras have moved from a luxury to a ubiquity, control of the narrative of how policing works has fallen out of the hands of the people who do it. It doesn't matter why multiple black men and women were shot to death... People have seen it happen, and they feel in their guts it was wrong. It's hard to get to that gut-level effect without visual stimulus; people have been writing for decades about the negative effects of violent-response-authorized policing. Now that we know this, how will things change? Will people try to make the cameras go away, will procedures change to account for everyone having a camera, will we all adapt to being seen more often in public? And at present people generally know when they're being filmed... What of the near future, where the tech to film something could be attached to a drone flying too high or too quietly to see? It's very, very hard to slice a clean cut between technology and its effect on societies. https://www.wtkr.com/news/technologys-role-in-the-black-lives-matter-movement https://www.wtkr.com/news/technologys-role-in-the-black-live...