Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1853arrow-down15
arrow-up1848arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square149fedilink
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agocomparison to pedophiles? maybe unfair. comparison to big tobacco? on fucking point. a computer is a tool, sure, and the hardware is largely opaque at the high school level, excepting massive nerds but every single one of these big tech companies runs all their shit on proprietary ecosystem lock-in, and keeping customers infantilized. anything that isn’t open source should be fucking banned from schools.
comparison to pedophiles? maybe unfair. comparison to big tobacco? on fucking point.
a computer is a tool, sure, and the hardware is largely opaque at the high school level, excepting massive nerds
but every single one of these big tech companies runs all their shit on proprietary ecosystem lock-in, and keeping customers infantilized.
anything that isn’t open source should be fucking banned from schools.