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The technology is neutral".
But then technology is neutral.
But he ends by arguing that the "technology is neutral" argument is wrong.
Surely no technology is "neutral" – each bears the impress of the impetus for its development.
The debate over the proper technological response to the British riots is likely to continue, but as Tom Watson, a Labour Party politician, pointed out on Twitter: "Technology is neutral".
In arguing, for example, that no technology is neutral, Morozov fails to identify one crucial characteristic of cryptographic systems: that it is vastly easier to scramble a message than it is to break the scrambling system and gain access to the message without the key.
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Science and technology are neutral.
Thirdly, because the idea persists that technologies are neutral, and thus are subordinated to the use given to them, which puts them above any questioning, usually associated with resistance to change or little clarity about the specific advantages they offer beyond the initial novelty of their incorporation.
But as with any advancement, the technology itself is neutral: it's the application and use of that technology that may be good or bad.
"The technology itself is neutral, but it's a learning system, so inevitably, they'll bear some imprint of the value system and culture of the designer so we have to think very carefully about values".
The neutrality thesis holds that technology is a neutral instrument that can be put to good or bad use by its users.
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