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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] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@[email protected] I see this more as a useful lens to help focus attention on where human rights considerations are most impactful / relevant. Some standards are more strongly associated with a particular context -- e.g., cookies.