Controversial Statements

• privacy is overrated

• cognitive dissonance is insurmountable

• google's motto is "do no evil" so we should trust them

• tech projects will always go well over budget

• documentation is stupid and a waste of time

• curated app stores are awesome

• funding of nonprofits is always corrupting

• iOS is the best thing ever

• social networking decreases the human ability for love

• the gender and race gap in tech does not matter

• resistance to cyber surveillance is futile

• NPOs should always use proprietary software

• competition is good for nonprofit tech

• the internet normalizes people's view of the world

• digital technology drives social change

• technology is never the solution

• focusing on security is a waste of time

• getting all your news from twitter is stupid

• it's easier to build something successful by working with people like you

• there should be no secrecy

• nonprofits should run like businesses

• human rights cannot exist in capitalism

• apps solve all the world's problems

• i will see the collapse of civilization in my lifetime

• users should be compensated for the content they provide to social networks

• surveillance is necessary for democracy

• encryption is no longer useful

• twitter made the revolution happen

• web design is better than print design

• smartphones are essential for social movements

• everything should be open source

• social media is inherently fucked

• developers need to be managed

• nonprofit tech is more aware of its privilege than other tech

• you should never act as if the nsa is listening

• google is evil

• the funding model for nonprofit tech is broken

• collaboration destroys productivity

• the cloud is dangerous

• tech companies and gov's need each other

• poor people aren't involved in tech

• there is no such thing as free software

• transparency prevents effective negotiation

• discount value exceeds privacy costs

• contemporary school is a destructive social force

• we need to build alternative internets

• open source softare is the most secure

• free software excludes underprivileged users

• nonprofit leaders must understand technology

• there are good reasons not to have open data

• encryption tools work to protect privacy

• corporate responsibility is impossible

• if we did't have capitalism, would we still have corporations

• environmentalism is the only important form of activism

• the internet is already neutral

• municipal broadband is good for the community

• no nonprofit should ever use salesforce

• love is a horrifically painful waste of time

• tech gentrification is good for the bay area

• technologists are pawns of telecoms

• online anonymity is only useful for bad people

• the digital divide is over

• being open means being transparent

• confrontation is good for movements

• diversity in tech culture is over valued

• facebook likes are useless

• nonprofits should aways have a social media presence

• all data should be open

• i will definitely buy google glass

• snowden will be pardoned in my lifetime

• one sharpie is better than two

• security is a privilege

• the internet brings people together

• the premise behind the samaritans project is unethical

• individual tracking is the best current option for equal resource distribution

• there is funding for all nonprofit tech projects

• technology is never the solution to civic problems

• the only independent media is grassroots media

• the private sector is a more effective social change agent than nonprofits

• privacy online is dead

• the US will never have high speed internet

• social networks running experiments on users is freaking awesome

• facebook - better off without it

• optimist learning tool wordpress, pessimistic learning tool drupal

• social media is organizing

• no digital documents will be retrievable in 100 years

• there should be no community on the internet

• free software is the same thing as open source

• social media is worthless for coalition building

• if a social justice project is good enough the source of its funding doesn't matter

• capitalism is bad

• gameification is asinine

• online activism is a waste of time

• privacy is dead

• open source software is not really open

• the benefits of using facebook outweigh the costs

• oakland is hella tight!

• tech gentrification is killing oakland

• tech illiteracy is destroying society

• linux is the best desktop OS for everyone

• social justice organizers don't effectively communicate to recruit technologists

• technology is post racial

• if i pay for something i should own it

• all public transportation data should be readily available

• encryption has to be hard to use

• twitter is good

• depending on volunteers is not sustainable

• all information produced by a nonprofit should be free

• transportation agencies collecting data is great

• twitter is more democratic than facebook

• we're winning

• nonprofits should only accept unrestricted funding

• technology can change climate change

• social media is detrimental to personal relationships

• for profit partnerships are contrary to social justice initiatives

• hashtags are an effective tool for social justic organizing

• email is a productive communication medium

• all police activity should be recorded on video

• data visualization is always useful

• all kids need to learn how to code

• reddit should have more restrictive user guidelines

• email based online advocacy is dead

• privileged white men in technology are preventing people of color from participating

• nonprofits and for profit corporations are good bedfellows

• google is not evil

• there's no such thing as online activism

• we benefit from startup culture

• proprietary software is not evil