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.

  • Nick Doty@techpolicy.socialM
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    9 months ago

    @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?

    • Chad Kohalyk@lemmy.mlOPM
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      9 months ago

      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!