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Is software political? (www.jstor.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In this paper the author highlights how both engineers and social scientists misinterpret the relationship between technology and society. In particular he attacks the narrative, widespread among engineers, that technological artifacts, such as software, have no political properties in themselves and that function or efficiency are the only drivers of technological design and implementation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It wasn't political until a bunch of terminally online people can't deal with a gendered pronoun made it political.

Telling a bunch of socially inept people to go pound sand is not a political act.