1. The current technology systems exist mostly to serve my needs and are not deliberately and consciously optimised to hurt me.
2. All software is bad and hard to use, and this is an intrinsic property of computing systems. Computers are complicated, insecure, hostile, confusing, and in a state of constant but necessary change. Poor outcomes from technology systems are impossible to predict.
3. Systems that are free to use are gifted by friendly, well-intentioned people, and any resulting harms are minimal and unintentional. It's reasonable to expect that most services delivered over the Internet are free, and regulating the behaviour of the friendly, well-intentioned people who provide them is unnecessary.
4. Price is a good predictor of the quality of a computing systems at any scale. Computing environments all have similar total-cost-of-ownership, which means they are of equivalent quality and variations are just expressions of personal preference. It's foolish to pay more than the minimum possible when purchasing any technology solution.
5. Building critical systems by connecting together many different commercial off-the-shelf products is the only reasonable way to approach any technology problem, and our society has never considered any other approach and does not know how.
6. Information technology is an optional, non-critical cost centre unrelated to the core business of any organisation and it makes perfect sense to avoid any in-house expertise at all and totally cede control to external organisations with standing incentives to improve their profitability by degrading your service. It is heretical to question this.
7. The malicious or benign intent of a software system is static and can be reliably detected through analysis of source and object code. Computers systems are deterministic, never demonstrate emergent behaviour, and never form complex systems in the scientific sense.
8. All technology harms are mitigated once someone has been blamed, and there is nothing useful to be learned after that.
9. Wealthy, out-spoken, and influential venture capitalists know more about computing than the average person, and share their extended knowledge to serve the public good.
10. CEOs of large technology corporations are the smartest engineer in their respective organisations, know more about computing than the average person, and share their extended knowledge to serve the public good.
11. Current technologies and methods for developing software are optimised to produce secure, high-performance systems and do not reflect the biases, preferences, or laziness of the people developing them. All software developers are motivated by a desire for software quality.
12. People who write software are the most qualified to design human-computer interaction processes, because they know more about computers than the average person. They make good choices of tools and technologies to provide positive benefits because they share our beliefs, values, and priorities.
13. Complex technology systems with a wide range of features and capabilities are inherently better than smaller, more constrained systems, even if you never use any of those capabilities.
14. Compatibility is a significant and important aspect of modern computing systems that should be prioritised over all other needs, even when “compatibility” is a property defined and controlled only by the technology vendor. It’s also important to preserve compatibility even with features you do not use.
15. The physical location of computation and data storage is a significant and important aspect of modern computing systems that should be prioritised over other needs. The economic benefits of computing systems follow location.
16. Unauthorised access to computer systems is a highly complex and demanding technical endeavour that requires an enormous degree of expertise, and is only used against high value targets: being a low value target means you will not be affected or victimised by it.
17. Anything that happens inside a computer isn’t real, and it’s not necessary to regulate computer systems because they cannot injure or kill real people in the real world.
18. Copyright law respects the intention of infringing works.
19. Governments do not manipulate political outcomes in other countries through the malicious use of technology, and it's reasonable to take any statement or identity claim from someone you don't know at face value. If any government ever attempted manipulation, the platform providers would immediately detect and prevent it. Platform providers definitely do not directly encourage political manipulation or treat it as a significant revenue source.
20. Large public service technology projects fail because of flaws in the institutions that commission them, and the procurement process and the vendors it selects don’t contribute to poor outcomes.