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Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends

posted by janrinok on Wednesday September 11 2019, @01:52PM   
from the with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility dept.

aristarchus writes:

At The Hill,

Washington Monthly Executive Editor Gilad Edelman said the perception of Silicon Valley has shifted dramatically among Democrats and Republicans since the 2016 presidential election.

Edelman told Hill.TV that the industry was relatively insulated from criticism and viewed favorably by both parties until President Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, saying his win "really scrambled a lot these beliefs and intuitions."

"Silicon Valley seems to have gone from an industry with no enemies to an industry with no friends," Edelman said during an interview on "Rising."

"Democrats realized that whatever the CEOs of Google or Facebook might think, these platforms seems to have facilitated Donald Trump's election," he added. "On the right, the fact that Trump could get elected while breaking from some pretty serious orthodoxies — at least superficially on economic matters — meant that maybe there was more room to criticize corporate business practices than conservatives had previously thought."

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• The problem the oligarchs have The problem the oligarchs have (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @02:55PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @02:55PM (#892706)

  The oligarchs companies have expanded tremendously by hiring borderline autists from the best tech schools of the country. So socially inexperienced that they don't understand that people don't choose whom to vote for like they were programmed, so selfrighteous from being smart, that every choice contrary to what they and their peers thought was right is denounced shrilly.
  The oligarchs realize all their vast wealth could evaporate if politicians thought the vocal Silicon Valley tech culture was a threat to their orderly reelections. They would much like their employees to STFU and get to work, like Google recently said. But they can't afford to offend and lose their talent.

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• Re:The problem the oligarchs have (Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @03:33PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @03:33PM (#892735)

  Dude you have no clue. You're like the 8 year old who wants to be King of England so he can eat candy all day and NOBODY will be able to stop him.

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