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Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive? (substack.com)

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Excellent article by Afsaneh Rigot, author of the Design from the Margins methodology.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The "defeat big tech for justice and freedom" story is somewhat undermined by being published on substack.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Kind of like how releasing a book about climate change and how we have to dump capitalism in the future called "This Changes Everything" is undermined by using capitalism to sell the book.

Naomi Klein's writing is fantastic, but I will never let this one go. If it really changed everything she could have given it away as a PDF for free. No offense to Klein but she can afford to make such a sacrifice, she has been very successful in capitalism.