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A manifesto
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
# Hacker Questions
* ~~Access to computers should be unlimited and total.~~ Who gets to use what I make? Who am I leaving out? How does what I make facilitate or hinder access?
* ~~All information should be free.~~ What data am I using? Whose labor produced it and what biases and assumptions are built into it? Why choose this particular phenomenon for digitization/transcription? What do the data leave out?
* ~~Mistrust authority - promote decentralization.~~ What systems of authority am I enacting through what I make? What systems do I rely on? How does what I make support other people?
* ~~Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race or position.~~ What kind of community am I assuming? What community do I invite through what I make? How are my own personal values reflected in what I make?
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