Sentence examples for neutral tools from inspiring English sources

Technologies are not just neutral tools, and they are not divorced from politics; they are designed with certain values and goals in mind.

According to Ursula Franklin, technology is not a set of neutral tools, methods or practices.

Technologies which directly scan or manipulate brains cannot be neutral tools, as open to commercial exploitation as any new gadget.

The role of technology in contributing to inappropriate acts is commonly framed "in terms of the use of neutral tools that can be employed for good or bad purposes, depending on the user" (p. 213).

Mr. Heiferman said that although he had a personal interest in Occupy Together, Meetup was a politically neutral tool.

But if people are spewing hate speech using a megaphone you built – people who wouldn't otherwise be heard – and you keep handing them megaphones anyway, your megaphone stops being a neutral tool, and your continued provision of it starts to indicate complicity.

Aristotelian rhetoric as such is a neutral tool that can be used by persons of virtuous or depraved character.

The idea behind Inflect is to offer these companies a single, neutral tool that allows them to find the right solutions for them and connect them with the right infrastructure providers.

The deal will transform DoubleClick from a neutral tool, which many use, to a direct line for Google to obtain exclusive insight into valuable inventory, not to mention piles of competitively sensitive data collected from users.

The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed a richer variety of conceptualizations of technology that move beyond the conceptualization of technology as a neutral tool, as a world view or as a historical necessity.

We mention these criticisms because Turnitin is not a neutral tool for analysis and is not simply a digital archive of texts (Purdy, 2009).4 Our study used this common method for detecting matched text in a corpus of texts, but we wanted to look more carefully at the behaviors of faculty writers.