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

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 legont on Thursday September 12 2019, @01:03AM (3 children)

    by legont (4179) on Thursday September 12 2019, @01:03AM (#893004)

    Therefore, he should not enjoy a journalist protection. He is basically the same as we here or even as chan8 folks.

    Only hard core fact digging journalists should be protected. The rest are regular citizens.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 12 2019, @03:49AM (2 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday September 12 2019, @03:49AM (#893045) Journal
    I would suggest that there's a bigger story here - that Silicon Valley is increasingly seen as the problem, and not the solution. That people are starting to wake up to the stupidity of inviting Alexa into the bedroom to spy on their hem, and that tech is there to benefit itself at the expense of it's users. Fucking over your users daily by leaking personal information is reducing people's regard of them. They are now seen as bumbling greedy liars, not geniuses.

    Really, who would take a job at Facebook or Twitter or Amazon or Google today and publicly admit it? Better to say you're a plumber or electrician. These companies now have as little prestige as used car salesmen.

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    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @04:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @04:15PM (#893210)

      APK made you look a bumbling idiot you are caught lying he started it when you did with you quoted proving that here in the end of it https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33430&page=1&cid=889582#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] and you were destroyed on technical data regarding C\C++ against Pascal.

    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @06:01PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @06:01PM (#893245)

      APK made you look a bumbling idiot you are caught lying he started it when you did in you quoted proving it here @ the end https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33430&page=1&cid=889582#commentwrap + you were destroyed on technical data regarding C\C++ against Pascal.