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A Venture Capital firm says techies need to get along with government:
From Airbnb to Uber, some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies have been fighting regulators since their inception. Now, one of the tech industry’s most respected venture capital firms wants to help both sides of the battle make nice with each other.
Andreessen Horowitz announced today that it’s launching a new policy and regulatory affairs unit, and that it has appointed Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s former general counsel, to lead the shop. Ullyot, who worked at both the White House and the Department of Justice before coming to the Valley, will be tasked with helping the firm’s portfolio companies see eye to eye with the government regulators with whom they’re increasingly butting heads.
Well, what do techies say, agree with the VC or string them up by their toes and poke them with sticks? Inquiring minds want to know...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @01:48PM
It's not the 'techies' who need to play nice with the government. It's the profit businesses who need to play nice with the government. (Or the government who needs to play nice with the profit businesses.)
The Internet was a really nice place until the profit motive fucked it all up. Shame we can't tell them to get off our lawn.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TestablePredictions on Friday April 17 2015, @08:54PM
You mean dark web right? There have been various baby-steps attempts so far (dining-cryptographers, onion-routing, cryptocurrency, etc...). If techies ever become sufficiently motivated (pissed-off), they might finally go full-bore on developing air-tight implementations and integrating it all together to solve internet freedom once and for all.