As the folk saying has it, 'A good worker doesn't blame the tools'. Technology is presented as amoral. If we choose to use technologies such as literacy or computers for repressive rather than liberatory purposes we have only ourselves to blame. The view that technology is 'ethically neutral' is sometimes referred to as an instrumental view of technology.
Technologists usually argue that technology is neutral.
Some theorists who posit technological autonomy are also amongst the wider group of those who have insisted on the non -neutrality of technology , arguing that we cannot merely 'use' technology without also, to some extent, being influenced or 'used by' it. Jacques Ellul was one of the most prominent of such theorists. He dismissed the neutralist idea that whether technology has good or bad effects depends on how it is used and the usual kind of example, that a knife can be used to kill, cook or cure. No matter how it is used, it has of itself a number of positive and negative consequences. We become conditioned by our technological systems or environments.