Tech hasn't pursued wars like the oil or food industry but enabled hybrid warfare by omission, it hasn't killed people directly but has created even more leverage for elites to dehumanise processes, e.g. customer support, setting rental prices, showing ads, etc.
There's no way for tech to not become politicised, it's wishful thinking, and wishing it away doesn't change the reality, the further tech embeds into our lives the more power it has, the more political it becomes.
By making everything equivalent linguistically, we lose the language to condemn terrible and awful things.
I absolutely reject the notion that anything tech has done is comparable in magnitude to the actual wars and actual mass killings funded by the oil industry.
Your rejoinder is replacing some customer support roles?
No, it was an e.g., it is right there in the post.
> By making everything equivalent linguistically, we lose the language to condemn terrible and awful things.
Completely agree, at the same time the harm created isn't inconsequential, do you mind coming to a term which we can use?
And by the way, you attacked tangent points of my argument, nothing in the substance of it. Power is politics, tech has power, so it's inherently politicised. Please attack this argument, not tangents.
I can tell that this is not going to be a productive back-and-forth, so I'll just leave it there.
