Another unfortunate fact is that there are a lot of right wing people in IT. That’s something I’ve learned in national conferences. I always hang out in places like this so I had no idea how bad it was, but at least 50% of the people I’ve met at IT conferences were right leaning. There’s only 1 on my team. 2 if you count the libertarian.
As is the rest of society. There’s nothing about IT that would make it more likely to attract left wing folks. There is that for FOSS specifically, but a huge part of the IT sector only consumes FOSS products without ever giving back.
Based solely on a Libertarian Linux group’s poster I saw one time, I suspect the unregulated nature of things: people provide and build their own software, no one telling you what you can and can’t build. I don’t quite know how to summarize it succinctly but do you kind of see what I’m getting at? Since a lot of FOSS is communities self-organizing and decentralized (by choice, not by edict, since right wing Libertarians clearly have no issues with heirarchies so long as it isn’t a gov. mandating them), I can see it being very appealing.
I suspect they absolutely insist on permissive copyright, though, so all the communal work can be easily exploited and stolen for the financial benefit of a few companies because something about the NAP and not restricting freedom including the freedom to be exploited.
That’s one of the things I enjoy about working in the video games industry instead of a normal software place, everybody seems much more progressive than the average for my country. Maybe it just comes with being underpaid and working on creative stuff.
When I first started I used to work at an absolute dumpster fire of a place, and even that only had one right wing guy and he was a conspiracy theorist who thought that the COVID vaccine contained nanobots. The guy who is supposedly an IT professional thinks we have nanobots.
He didn’t last very long. Not because he was a conspiracy theorist, although for my part I would have been perfectly fine if that had been the reason, but because he was actually kind of useless at his job. It turns out that if you think we have a microscopic robotic technology then you’re probably not as well versed in the industry as you are pretending to be.
I think the point of this post is how they are all doing stereotypically nerdy things, and then they are into Twitter
>field stereotypically composed of argumentative assholes
>members congregate amongst argumentative assholes
This is as surprising as finding my old human sexuality professor on tumblr. I mean, I haven’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Another unfortunate fact is that there are a lot of right wing people in IT. That’s something I’ve learned in national conferences. I always hang out in places like this so I had no idea how bad it was, but at least 50% of the people I’ve met at IT conferences were right leaning. There’s only 1 on my team. 2 if you count the libertarian.
As is the rest of society. There’s nothing about IT that would make it more likely to attract left wing folks. There is that for FOSS specifically, but a huge part of the IT sector only consumes FOSS products without ever giving back.
FOSS also attracts right wing libertarians
Why would Libertarians use FOSS, giving away things goes against the central ethos of profits over everything.
Have you heard of lunduke?
Based solely on a Libertarian Linux group’s poster I saw one time, I suspect the unregulated nature of things: people provide and build their own software, no one telling you what you can and can’t build. I don’t quite know how to summarize it succinctly but do you kind of see what I’m getting at? Since a lot of FOSS is communities self-organizing and decentralized (by choice, not by edict, since right wing Libertarians clearly have no issues with heirarchies so long as it isn’t a gov. mandating them), I can see it being very appealing.
I suspect they absolutely insist on permissive copyright, though,
so all the communal work can be easily exploited and stolen for the financial benefit of a few companiesbecause something about the NAP and not restricting freedomincluding the freedom to be exploited.True, but by its nature of sharing more left wingers than other fields of IT
That’s one of the things I enjoy about working in the video games industry instead of a normal software place, everybody seems much more progressive than the average for my country. Maybe it just comes with being underpaid and working on creative stuff.
When I first started I used to work at an absolute dumpster fire of a place, and even that only had one right wing guy and he was a conspiracy theorist who thought that the COVID vaccine contained nanobots. The guy who is supposedly an IT professional thinks we have nanobots.
He didn’t last very long. Not because he was a conspiracy theorist, although for my part I would have been perfectly fine if that had been the reason, but because he was actually kind of useless at his job. It turns out that if you think we have a microscopic robotic technology then you’re probably not as well versed in the industry as you are pretending to be.
In my experience, the security folks tend to argue less than the other IT fields I’ve worked in.