Comment on Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 days agoPeople who have literally made tools to do bad things justified it by claiming that tech is neutral in an abstract sense
Bold a keyword there for you
JollyG@lemmy.world 3 days ago
At no point in this conversation have I ever said that tech in an abstract sense is inherently good or bad. The point that I am making— and this is the last time I will make it— is that it is not interesting to talk about the ethics of some technology in an abstraction in cases where the actual tech is as it is actually implemented is clearly bad.
Saying “tech is neutral” is a dodge. People say that to avoid thinking about the ethics of what it is they are doing.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But that is what you are doing and I am saying that it is people who are responsible for the implementation.
JollyG@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Saying “tech is neutral” is a dodge. People say that to avoid thinking about the ethics of what it is they are doing.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 days ago
People are the ones who do things with tech; hence they are responsible for the actions. Tech is just an object with no will of its own to do right or wrong.