Spectrogram Statements

Controversial Statements

• Bitcoin is good for the little guy
• Twitter will be good for social justice movements around the world
• Healthcare.gov shows government can't do anything right
• The current deployment of the internet is neutral.
• Use of devices kills creativity
• Data mining benefits everyone
• Technology is not inclusive to everyone in society
• Content heavy websites are not relevant
• NPTech is weak sauce without a lobbying contingent
• Facebook is good for humans
• Occupy was a failure
• Everyone should code
• The interwebs will save us
• Data scraping is good
• Nonprofits must do R&D (Research & Development)
• Online social networks are needed in schools.
• Chrome is tainted
• Facebook is absolutely necessary
• Encryption is over.
• Non-conformists all have apples.
• The cloud is the end of personal computing.
• This (and other) english-only meetings reinforce linguistic hegemony
• Digital divide is great because it keeps have-nots safe from surveillance.
• The affordable Care Act is giving technology a bad name.
• Needy orgs crush open source software projects with their neediness
• Silicon Valley will save the world.
• Nonprofits should always use open source.
• There is no such thing as privacy (get over it)
• Apple is over
• Thank goodness for the NSA (they're keeping us safe)
• Nonprofits should ONLY use open source software
• Community is impossible on the internet
• User accessibility is bullshit
• Work-life balance is incompatible with activism
• Wall Street should be destroyed
• Within 10 years nobody will touch a keyboard
• Activists should ONLY use FOSS
• Societal change is always more important than individual change
• You should always encrypt your email
• Privacy is more important than accessibility
• Corporate social media is helpful in organizing
• Funding for new not for profit ventures is broken.
• Nonprofits don't learn technology fast enough
• Vanity metrics are fabulous "likes"/"views"
• Making money consulting for nonprofits is immoral
• People use their mobile phones too much
• If you are not paying for a product, you are the product
• Technology is good for democracy
• Social Media hurts activism
• There is no going back from the internet
• It's better to have a crappy website rather than none
• Big data is very useful
• I'd rather give my data to Google than the government
• Linux is still too difficult for the average user
• Hackathons are great ways to develop a product
• If you're a privacy activist and you use gmail, you're a hypocrite
• Accepting USG funding is traiterous
• If you're a nonprofit and you want funding, go for-profit
• If you don't have sensitive data, it is ok to use google
• I don't have time to figure out how tools work.
• Facebook is not the place to organize radical change.
• Public sector coding fellowships, like Code for America, serves its fellows better than its cities
• We have an ethical obligation NOT to use Apple products
• Encryption is too hard for the average user
• Facebook is a bad fundraising tool.
• Brooklyn is better than Oakland
• Will online data help sensitive easy legal immigration?
• Everyone should encrypt everything
• Every nonprofit needs an online presence
• Encrypting your data is a civic duty
• Invest all your money in bitcoin
• Everyone should work for nonprofits
• Everyone should work from home!
• The "cloud" is evil!
• Corporations have done more to help humanity than harm it
• The ad revenue model is the best method for providing quality information on the internet.
• Nonprofits have no choice but to be on facebook!
• google buses suck
• Activists that make money are sell-outs
• The internet is evil & must be destroyed
• The debate about which CMS is better in not useful
• It is better to use google tools because people already know how to use them
• Is your laptop hard drive encrypted?
• How to balance security stability profitability
• What are good privacy tools that are easy to use? (email, file sharing, etc.)
• Everyone should learn to program
• "encryption works"
• This event starts too early
• We must avoid Apple products
• If people care they will act
• The internet is a tool of patriarchy
• The internet is a LEVEL playing field
• The internet will DIE without neutrality
• Online organizing takes away from good grassroots organizing
• Social media is constructive for breaking news
• Index investing is bad
• The government is looking for us
• Apple is now more evil than Micro$oft
• Email (PGP) encryption is just too hard for average users to adopt
• Big data is good for humanity
• Future generations lose when gramma gets a pacemaker
• Google glass is scary
• Grassroots orgs should outsource ALL tech needs & focus on organizing