How Web Development Criticism and Privacy Concerns Fit Together
Jens Meiert, September 7, 2007 / February 25, 2008.
This entry is filed under Web Development, Politics.
Some readers of my blog might wonder why I’m not only writing about web dev and other professional topics, but also about politics and privacy, among others. I try to focus on professional things (that’s why deviant stuff is filed under “Uncategorized” most of the time), but there’s a reason for digressing, to me there sometimes is a similarity: People who criticize almost always care.
You don’t criticize something that doesn’t matter to you. And so strange as that may sound, it’s strong, it’s the motivation for me not only to point out problems in our industry, but to express other concerns as well. Web development and politics are quite different animals, very specific matters, but taking into account general concepts like love (you might wonder again now) and trust, you can relate them – and other topics – anyway.
When I criticize certain processes, mindsets, and details in the web design business, it’s not because I necessarily want to be destructive and show how stupid other people are. It’s because I love our industry, it is challenging and it gives room for creativity, it means professional freedom anyway. That doesn’t mean that things are always good – quite the contrary, products and services are of inferior quality most of the time –, and this triggers criticism anyway, criticism that should mean motivation (and it’s motivation for me, too; how many mistakes did I already do, please …).
I also love freedom and privacy. That’s why I’m really concerned by current development in most (Western) countries. Terrorism already won, and yet more and more countries sacrifice rights, for, yes, what. I don’t want to downplay the threats we apparently face, but considering both research revealing that it’s the occupation, not the fundamentalism and “overreactions” on behalf of authorites doesn’t make anything better.
I bet that many of you will know what I mean. In most countries, it’s currently yet all the more important to open the mouth, and criticism is an important thing. It’s good to care and to trust and to love.
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