@rolle as a technology ethicist I am constantly thinking about this. It’s very hard given workplace requirements and social norms. I can’t even get rid of WhatsApp because all the kids’ school and preschool comms use it. So I’ve eventually come back to the “no ethical consumption under capitalism” thing because we need to make systemic changes that are outside of the control of individuals.
@rolle that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try to keep unethical things out (I avoid genAI as much as possible, but even then I occasionally have to test it in order to argue against it 😩 ) but I’m not going to guilt trip myself if I can’t always live up to the ideal. My big sacrifice was Facebook, which is less of a hit these days but a decade ago everyone was on there and I missed out on a lot of events.
@CatherineFlick @rolle This is exactly on the point; perfect is the worst enemy of good enough!
Anyone who is just good but not perfect on these matters will face criticism of those who have not even tried. And these folks focus their criticism on the few things you failed to do and NEVER visit even one of their 10000 things not even for a second.
To me this setup is hard to tackle.