Yeah, it’s kind of amazing to see how little most people think about what happens to their data. When you talk to people about it, they will typically tell you that they don’t want their personal information used without their consent. Yet, for some reason they just fail to connect that with what actually happens to their data. I do think that education is a big part of the solution here.
And it doesn’t help that education systems are literally locking them into the idea that these things are good, or at least not of worry, due to partnering with stuff like Google for Classrooms, and Zoom, etc. Kids grow up using Apple machines, or even Windows, but don’t bat an eye to even considering teaching kids Linux. Especially because it’s literally free, it baffles me. I understand using Photoshop in certain cases for example as these are still prominent in professional fields unfortunately, and will give them knowledge to use them, but they don’t even consider alternatives, or even show that they exist.
I’m not talking about college here, but more specifically high school and under. These are massive development periods for life, where stuff they learn here sticks with them for the rest of their life, and when you start introducing kids to all these programs, not even discuss issues that may be present with privacy or even collaborative efforts (FOSS). I guarantee you if teachers maybe did small privacy related courses, kids would start to catch on and say “Well why are we using Google Classroom?” and etc, and start to question things. Kids are curious, I mean not everyone, but there will be a lot more kids who maybe start to consider things. Ontop of this, when kids start doing something, other kids follow. As long as they are being educated on these subjects properly that is the most important thing, and as of right now they’re not even being educated on these subjects at all.
For sure, it’s really insidious how kinds end up being indoctrinated into using these services as the norm. GNU has been fighting the good fight for a long time, and it’s really unfortunate how marginalized it’s become in recent years. I see the whole permissive license movement as a step backwards from GNU licensing because it allows companies to freeload on open source without having to contribute anything back.
Yeah, it’s kind of amazing to see how little most people think about what happens to their data. When you talk to people about it, they will typically tell you that they don’t want their personal information used without their consent. Yet, for some reason they just fail to connect that with what actually happens to their data. I do think that education is a big part of the solution here.
And it doesn’t help that education systems are literally locking them into the idea that these things are good, or at least not of worry, due to partnering with stuff like Google for Classrooms, and Zoom, etc. Kids grow up using Apple machines, or even Windows, but don’t bat an eye to even considering teaching kids Linux. Especially because it’s literally free, it baffles me. I understand using Photoshop in certain cases for example as these are still prominent in professional fields unfortunately, and will give them knowledge to use them, but they don’t even consider alternatives, or even show that they exist.
I’m not talking about college here, but more specifically high school and under. These are massive development periods for life, where stuff they learn here sticks with them for the rest of their life, and when you start introducing kids to all these programs, not even discuss issues that may be present with privacy or even collaborative efforts (FOSS). I guarantee you if teachers maybe did small privacy related courses, kids would start to catch on and say “Well why are we using Google Classroom?” and etc, and start to question things. Kids are curious, I mean not everyone, but there will be a lot more kids who maybe start to consider things. Ontop of this, when kids start doing something, other kids follow. As long as they are being educated on these subjects properly that is the most important thing, and as of right now they’re not even being educated on these subjects at all.
https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.en.html
For sure, it’s really insidious how kinds end up being indoctrinated into using these services as the norm. GNU has been fighting the good fight for a long time, and it’s really unfortunate how marginalized it’s become in recent years. I see the whole permissive license movement as a step backwards from GNU licensing because it allows companies to freeload on open source without having to contribute anything back.