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The Would-Be Technocracy: Evaluating Efforts to Direct and Control Social Change with Internet Protocol Design (scholarlypublishingcollective.org)

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Critical look at the Human Rights Protocol Considerations effort in the IRTF; argues that you can't embed human rights in technology without considering the specific context of use.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@chadkoh a remarkably nihilist conclusion! Do I understand the authors correctly that they believe it is impossible to predict what effect protocol design decisions will have on the world, therefore ... we shouldn't try? Or, it would even be harmful if we tried?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I am going to call on @mnot here since this is actually his link. I posted it when I set up the lemmy, but could not change attribution. Its on my reading list tho!