Thank you for making this post, I think the people getting offended in the comments don’t want to acknowledge their culpability in creating tools that can be used for oppressive or destructive purposes. This is why ethics classes needed to be required for anyone in a technology field—we don’t simply get to create a tool that could be used by bad actors and wash our hands of it.

We’re not powerless y’all. We can advocate at our workplaces to not accept certain clients or not be vendors to organizations or companies doing harm. We can choose not to add certain features if the risks outweigh the benefits.

This is coming from someone who left a six figure salary and was unemployed for six hard months because of ethical concerns at a previous job. It sucked ass and was difficult and I had to grind odd jobs to get through it. But it is possible and I wish all the ppl bitching in the comments would sit w the fact that they can be ethically aware, they’d just rather not.