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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 legont on Thursday September 12 2019, @01:11AM (2 children)

    by legont (4179) on Thursday September 12 2019, @01:11AM (#893005)

    I doubt it's Trump. Epstein's "madam" is probably Mossad and that's where the handlers are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @03:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @03:03AM (#893035)

    Like the man said, "I want him to publicly hang ... every POS who diddled children at Epstein's Island". Mossad included.

    This is the come to Jesus moment when right and left unleash in the same direction and the nation gets to feel what that's like again. Hopefully without starting WW3.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @07:19AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @07:19AM (#893078)

      For you the Epstine scandal was a transformative event, and peering back of the veneers that hide the elite and powerful. For Mossad it was Tuesday. Their crimes are the dark-matter that keeps this galaxy together.