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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>*privacy is overrated<br />
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*cognitive dissonance is insurmountable<br />
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*google's motto is "do no evil" so we should trust them<br />
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*tech projects will always go well over budget<br />
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*documentation is stupid and a waste of time<br />
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*curated app stores are awesome<br />
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*funding of nonprofits is always corrupting<br />
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*iOS is the best thing ever<br />
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*social networking decreases the human ability for love<br />
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*the gender and race gap in tech does not matter<br />
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*resistance to cyber surveillance is futile<br />
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*NPOs should always use proprietary software<br />
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*competition is good for nonprofit tech<br />
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*the internet normalizes people's view of the world<br />
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*digital technology drives social change<br />
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*technology is never the solution<br />
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*focusing on security is a waste of time<br />
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*getting all your news from twitter is stupid<br />
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*it's easier to build something successful by working with people like you<br />
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*there should be no secrecy<br />
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*nonprofits should run like businesses<br />
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*human rights cannot exist in capitalism<br />
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*apps solve all the world's problems<br />
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*i will see the collapse of civilization in my lifetime<br />
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*users should be compensated for the content they provide to social networks<br />
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*surveillance is necessary for democracy<br />
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*encryption is no longer useful<br />
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*twitter made the revolution happen<br />
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*web design is better than print design<br />
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*smartphones are essential for social movements<br />
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*everything should be open source<br />
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*social media is inherently fucked<br />
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*developers need to be managed<br />
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*nonprofit tech is more aware of its privilege than other tech<br />
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*you should never act as if the nsa is listening<br />
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*google is evil<br />
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*the funding model for nonprofit tech is broken<br />
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*collaboration destroys productivity<br />
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*the cloud is dangerous<br />
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*tech companies and gov's need each other<br />
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*poor people aren't involved in tech<br />
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*there is no such thing as free software<br />
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*transparency prevents effective negotiation<br />
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*discount value exceeds privacy costs<br />
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*contemporary school is a destructive social force<br />
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*we need to build alternative internets<br />
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*open source softare is the most secure<br />
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*free software excludes underprivileged users<br />
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*nonprofit leaders must understand technology<br />
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*there are good reasons not to have open data<br />
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*encryption tools work to protect privacy<br />
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*corporate responsibility is impossible<br />
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*if we did't have capitalism, would we still have corporations<br />
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*environmentalism is the only important form of activism<br />
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*the internet is already neutral<br />
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*municipal broadband is good for the community<br />
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*no nonprofit should ever use salesforce<br />
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*love is a horrifically painful waste of time<br />
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*tech gentrification is good for the bay area<br />
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*technologists are pawns of telecoms<br />
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*online anonymity is only useful for bad people<br />
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*the digital divide is over<br />
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*being open means being transparent<br />
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*confrontation is good for movements<br />
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*diversity in tech culture is over valued<br />
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*facebook likes are useless<br />
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*nonprofits should aways have a social media presence<br />
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*all data should be open<br />
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*i will definitely buy google glass<br />
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*snowden will be pardoned in my lifetime<br />
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*one sharpie is better than two<br />
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*security is a privilege<br />
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*the internet brings people together<br />
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*the premise behind the samaritans project is unethical<br />
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*individual tracking is the best current option for equal resource distribution<br />
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*there is funding for all nonprofit tech projects<br />
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*technology is never the solution to civic problems<br />
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*the only independent media is grassroots media<br />
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*the private sector is a more effective social change agent than nonprofits<br />
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*privacy online is dead<br />
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*the US will never have high speed internet<br />
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*social networks running experiments on users is freaking awesome<br />
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*facebook - better off without it<br />
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*optimist learning tool wordpress, pessimistic learning tool drupal<br />
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*social media is organizing<br />
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*no digital documents will be retrievable in 100 years<br />
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*there should be no community on the internet<br />
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*free software is the same thing as open source<br />
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*social media is worthless for coalition building<br />
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*if a social justice project is good enough the source of its funding doesn't matter<br />
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*capitalism is bad<br />
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*gameification is asinine<br />
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*online activism is a waste of time<br />
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*privacy is dead<br />
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*open source software is not really open<br />
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*the benefits of using facebook outweigh the costs<br />
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*oakland is hella tight!<br />
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*tech gentrification is killing oakland<br />
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*tech illiteracy is destroying society<br />
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*linux is the best desktop OS for everyone<br />
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*social justice organizers don't effectively communicate to recruit technologists<br />
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*technology is post racial<br />
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*if i pay for something i should own it<br />
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*all public transportation data should be readily available<br />
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*encryption has to be hard to use<br />
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*twitter is good<br />
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*depending on volunteers is not sustainable<br />
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*all information produced by a nonprofit should be free<br />
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*transportation agencies collecting data is great<br />
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*twitter is more democratic than facebook<br />
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*we're winning<br />
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*nonprofits should only accept unrestricted funding<br />
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*technology can change climate change<br />
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*social media is detrimental to personal relationships<br />
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*for profit partnerships are contrary to social justice initiatives<br />
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*hashtags are an effective tool for social justic organizing<br />
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*email is a productive communication medium<br />
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*all police activity should be recorded on video<br />
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*data visualization is always useful<br />
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*all kids need to learn how to code<br />
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*reddit should have more restrictive user guidelines<br />
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*email based online advocacy is dead<br />
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*privileged white men in technology are preventing people of color from participating<br />
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*nonprofits and for profit corporations are good bedfellows<br />
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*google is not evil<br />
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*there's no such thing as online activism<br />
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*we benefit from startup culture<br />
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*proprietary software is not evil</div>Vivian