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Sometimes the product choices that tech companies see as "politically neutral" are not and the people who are impacted by those choices are usually already marginalized: wired.com/story/google-maps-we

WIRED · How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West BankBy Paresh Dave

I have had engineers tell me with a straight face "maps are not political." My dude, there is NOTHING MORE POLITICAL THAN MAPS.

@evacide i need a shirt that says EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL YOU MUPPETS

Michael T Babcock

@hacks4pancakes @evacide ... for every person who puts their head in the sand and says they don't follow politics?

@mikebabcock @hacks4pancakes When I hear this, I think of Edith's line from Enola Holmes: “Politics doesn’t interest you because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well." ⁣