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This is why technology businesses and professionals need to take a little bit of an active role in local politics. Otherwise you get nonsense.
by pjc50 7mo ago
This is why technology businesses and professionals need to take a little bit of an active role in local politics. Otherwise you get nonsense.
- DocTomoe 7mo agoThat's an interesting euphenism for 'spend a massive amount of money on ~~corruption~~ lobbying',
- lentil_soup 7mo agonot necesarilly, any government will make decisions, if there's no one to speak up and inform them why the decision is stupid, like the one from LaLiga, then we end up in this situation
- afh1 7mo agoThis is incredibly naive.
- lentil_soup 7mo agook, then what do you suggest? we don't get involved and decisions at the government level are made for us? I might be naive, but let's not be restrained by the cynicism of any involment in politics and governance is corruption
- embedding-shape 7mo agoWhat? This is how governance and public opinion happen, at least in Spain. Government does something bad? Everyone out on the streets to complain, and calling politicians to change their mind. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, but doing nothing is never an option if you disagree with what they're doing. To think that doing nothing is better than something, that's incredibly naive.
- ryandrake 7mo agoDoing nothing can't be better, but it's entirely possible that doing nothing has exactly the equal effect as doing something.
- embedding-shape 7mo ago> but it's entirely possible You're right, it possibly has the same effect. How could we figure out what's the actual answer in practice?
- dabinat 7mo agoWe also need more tech-savvy politicians in office. There are a lot of politicians who are expected to legislate on important technology issues that barely know how to use a cellphone.
- otabdeveloper4 7mo agoProbably not, the tech-savvy politicians know about things like "DPI" and "traffic signatures".
- tosti 7mo agoAnd DoT and ESNI.