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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: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday September 12 2019, @11:50AM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Thursday September 12 2019, @11:50AM (#893125)

    May as well prep for dotcom 2.0. Right about now we're in January or February 2000.

    Dying "anything" always goes hard left and deep censorship as the rats desert the sinking ship and whats left is holier than thou virtue signalling.

    The old days of this cycle where enormous profits were generated off virtualization and cloudy stuff are long over. All we got left is "we gonna be middle men for office real estate" or "we going to ignore the laws for hotel and taxi until we get caught and wiped out" there's not much out there left in THIS cycle thats actually making money.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by barbara hudson on Friday September 13 2019, @01:36AM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday September 13 2019, @01:36AM (#893468) Journal
    Well, Uber is dying, but what can you expect from a company whose game plan was expand real fast, implement self driving cars USING JAVASCRIPT and node.js because you can develop faster than in real languages and it can't be much different from the web, and now it's all falling apart.

    The initial investors knew it was doomed, but they got their money so who cares, and subsequent investors are too tech-ignorant to understand that they were doomed from the beginning , and won't sue for stock fraud. Or just still hoping that they can get out and leave someone else holding the bag.

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