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Aral Balkan

Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:

Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)

vimeo.com/1075963646

(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)

PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).

VimeoBig Brother Awards 2014 – Aral Balkan: We need an ethical approach to designAral’s opening keynote from Bits of Freedom’s Big Brother Awards 2014
#EthicalDesignManifesto#ethics#design
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Aral Balkan

The Camera Panopticon

How did we end up in technofascism? Watch this talk I gave over a decade ago warning of the dangers of Silicon Valley and Big Tech and urging us to embrace alternatives.

small-tech.org/videos/the-came

(Transcript available in English, Español, and Nederlands, thanks to the community.)

Small Technology FoundationThe Camera PanopticonAral at The Big Brother Awards in Amsterdam, Netherlands. November 2014.
#technofascism#BigTech#SiliconValley
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pixelfed

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#pixelfed#ethicalDesign
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Aral Balkan

@chrisg Exactly.

This is what I’m trying to push for with the Small Technology principles – small-tech.org/about/#small-te – which came out of our earlier work on the Ethical Design Manifesto (ind.ie/ethical-design/).

FOSS alone is not enough.

small-tech.orgSmall Technology Foundation: AboutWe’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.
#SmallTech#ethicalDesign#freedom
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