Can use different ideas, am starting with left/right. If you would like to use a different agenda please open a new page and go for it.
We start with the assumption that 90-100% of funding on this subject is simply pored down the drain, most of it into pointless NGO projects and #fashernista individuals “careers” in this first look am using very basic definitions.
- Right-wing is motivated by Fear/control
- Left-wing is motivated by Trust/open
- Center – liberal/social democracy agenda
- NGO – pointlessness, nobody uses it.
Going to start with the best #openweb funders I have found recently https://nlnet.nl/ who have money from NGI Zero which is from the EU
LINK https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/4opens/wiki/Funding-of-openweb-projects
This is DIY feel free to add to this draft, just add your view as Right/Left/Center/NGO before the project and if it’s different to the other view’s maybe add a short text why in brackets.
Thinking
The world has shifted hard to the right in the last 10 years, it has dragged the “left” in reaction to this move. The is little what you would traditionally call left.
What is left is in “reaction” to the right, thus is reaction/conservatism, which is a right agenda.
There is a bind/blind/blocking here that we have to work to overcome.
This thread is shovel and composting.
Q. For example, they’ve labelled Disroot as right-wing. Why? Because in their opinion all encryption stuff is motivated by fear/control, which are the tools of the right wing, so it must be right-wing… :/
A. This should be obvious – Disroot is about “Fear/control” yes you can say you are doing this for left agenda which is obviously true. BUT the “motivation” is right wing and not left wing which is what am looking at, it’s based on “Fear/control”
Q. “we want encryption since it guarantees certain freedoms/rights, like the right to communicate privately.”
A. Fear leading to the need for control – this is an obvious right-wing path. Not saying it’s a bad thing in the shit heap we live in 🙂 What would a leftwing path, based on open/trust look like?
A. We are looking at these projects from basic *political* viewpoints in this meany, encryption projects are about “conserving” a right or #blocking a problem. These are both negative conservative agenda.
This might be counterintuitive but have a look at political philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum
“Generally, the left-wing is characterized by an emphasis on “ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism” while the right-wing is characterized by an emphasis on “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism”
It’s interesting to look at the world in different ways.
End thoughts
Am hoping that people are starting to see that there are almost no left-wing tech funding, yes the is funding using right-wing agendas to push back at right-wing problems. BUT actual projects funded to push left-wing agenda are rare.
Of course there is a huge amount of NGO #pouring money down the drain, this is normal. Here am looking at the BEST progressive tech funding I can find, they do good work, so it’s not an attack please.