Links to interesting / good / important tech policy papers are welcome.
Brevity is appreciated, although some context (hashtags, an abstract, etc.) is helpful.
"Tech Policy" is intended broadly -- topics like governance, standards, community-building, law, regulation, etc. are all in scope.
@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?
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!
Also see https://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/Workshops/REARCH/ReArch_papers/10-Brown.pdf from Ian Brown
@[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.