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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by Sourcery42 on Wednesday September 11 2019, @07:30PM (1 child)

    by Sourcery42 (6400) on Wednesday September 11 2019, @07:30PM (#892870)

    But if you don't vote for a lizard the wrong lizard might get in.

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday September 13 2019, @01:07AM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday September 13 2019, @01:07AM (#893453) Journal
    You can always run yourself if you're not happy with the choices. You probably won't win as an independent (I didn't) but it's gratifying to see that, a year after ridiculing some of my ideas, they adopted them as their own and put them into practice.

    Ultimately, I got to change a few things for the better and that's more than would have happened if I had just voted for the lesser of two evils. If everyone did it just once in their life ..:

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