2024-09-21 –, LAB 3
We talk about privacy and dignity as individual concerns, and their costs to the state, but if we are going to talk about cost, we have to talk about externalities and consequences. What does it really cost a country, to devalue the privacy of its citizens?
This will be a short talk, describing the value of privacy and dignity in terms of what it costs us, as a society, if it's cheap to take them away. I'll be arguing that a key distinguisher of participatory democracy - boutique governance, the Rolls Royce of public adminstration - is that taking away people's rights is expensive and has to be kept expensive if your state wants to stay a participatory democracy.
Mike Hoye a systems administrator, community manager and Flow's Director of Developer Engagement. His secret plan is to change the practice of creating software into a humane, inclusive and empirically and morally defensible discipline for a humane, inclusive and empirically and morally defensible world.