Moral economy and software development: software without politics is recipe for totalitarianism
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1JRQG)
Maciej CegAowski (previously) keynoted the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics conference with a characteristically brilliant speech about the "moral economy of tech" -- that is, the way that treating social problems like software problems allows techies to absolve themselves of the moral consequences of their actions and the harms that result. (more")