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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cczona@hachyderm.io ("Carina C. Zona") wrote:
I express that a little differently though:
_Defaults are not neutral. They enact political values._
Looking at Chrome's example from yesterday's news, its default of downloading a 4gb model file to each user enacts political values including
* Everyone should be paying for unlimited bandwidth
* Everyone should have large storage devices with lots of free space
* Conserving energy doesn't matter
* Conserving bandwidth doesn't matter
* Pollution doesn't matter
* Consent doesn't matter
* Disclosure doesn't matter
* Usefulness doesn't matter
* The user doesn't have the right to delete unwanted material from their device
One default, embodying and imposing right-wing political values. Be rich, be profligate, be wasteful, be disrespectful, be subservient to the tech oligarchy, be docile.
Look into your software and ask whose interests are being served by it and whose interests have been deemed unimportant. Its core politics are embedded in that.