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