Look, you can interpret what I said anyway you like, but regardless I'm correct. If a serial killer believes himself to be "good" and you believe him to be "bad" which one of you is correct? How about a man that wants so badly to murder everyone he meets but doesn't ever do it? Is he a good man as long as he doesn't act?
They do bad things. If a rabid dog attacks a child, killing it, is the dog bad? If a priest gives comfort to a dying man then molests a child is he good then bad? No he's neither. The actions are good or bad; the individual is neither.
How is me "forcing" somehow worse than Microsoft actually forcing people to use their ad-pushing, data mining spyware of an operating system? My "agenda" is simplifying an elderly person's computing experience, protecting her from phishing/scams and allowing her the freedom of not having to worry about one other thing.
Fun read, but the zinger of "it.... Just.... Isn't.... Important" really damages your argument.
The difference in knowing how our technological systems work versus just using them is how you wind up in a world where capitalist rule, intelligence dwindles and choice is stolen. We're seeing these effects in real time. And it's just not technology; take the electoral system here in the US. It stopped being about the functions of our government and became flag waving and baby kissing. Now our tax dollars kill children, the rich are all but unstoppable and we're at each other's throats all because we, collectively, let the systems work without understanding how and why.
Tech today being a glass and aluminum block feeds our lust, insecurity, inequality, comparison etc all in an effort to generate wealth and further divide, all by design. Didn't you think it's very important to know that?
No it's insane to continue supporting companies when their leadership doesn't align with your ideals. The only power you have is choice.
Now run along and continue being the good little consumer you've been made to be.
Man, most of these replies are just the results of living in capitalism and the brainwashing it imposes.
"Work cause you have to... Unless you don't cause you're rich!"