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It's not so surprising. A lot of people have been jealously watching on as 'fat cat' 'tech bros' eat into their industries. Now there are signs that the market
by lhnz 11y ago
It's not so surprising.
A lot of people have been jealously watching on as 'fat cat' 'tech bros' eat into their industries. Now there are signs that the market will correct and that technology companies will not continue to get free passes with which to ignore government. In short, they want to see blood and will settle to see it whichever way they can.
Tech on the whole needs to wise up politically. It cannot continue to accept the negative characterisations of its members, nor can it continue to do whatever it wants without any political ramifications. Even if we believe we're doing the right thing, we'll need to redeem ourselves in the public eye and critically evaluate solutions to social problems we've been implicated in (whether or not we are the sole cause of them.)
- mattmanser 11y agoIt's odd, yesterday they had a fairly prominently displayed piece praising it (at least for the UK): http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/21/apple-smartphone-personal-data http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/21/apple-s... If you look through the other articles it's all been fairly pro-Apple: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/apple http://www.theguardian.com/technology/apple It's a bit strange that a business writer has been allowed to fairly anonymously attack Apple, in what has been a pro-Snowdon/privacy paper.
- lhnz 11y agoI don't mean to discount the anti-censorship narrative. I'm merely pointing to another narrative that also exists and is gaining mindshare - demographic issues in tech, inequality caused by tech, tech ignoring government, people in tech being arrogant, etc.
- toyg 11y agopro-Snowden... but openly anti-Assange, and moving to the right of the political discourse at increasing speed (they dropped UK Labour in 2010, campaigned against the current Labour leader, and are keen to appease the US market).
- frandroid 11y agoThe Guardian is trying to grow in the U.S. market, not appease it. If the Guardian does nothing, it's not under any kind of threat other than being ignored. You appease someone who threatens you. /nitpick
- toyg 11y agoThey are appeasing the (mostly US-based) online market that is making them obsolete. See what happened to The Independent? That will happen to The Guardian as well, unless they can become a real player in the US and hence globally. I could have used "begging" as well but it would have been a bit degrading.
- mattmanser 11y agoWell, technically they are moving to the right, but to left of centre from the far left. They used to be insufferable, I actually far prefered the independant in print. They used to have this tiresome war reporter who would write these highly biased and inflammatory pieces which weren't news but propaganda. And the opinion pieces, ugh. I used to rotate papers (telegraph, indie and Guardian), I personally thought the Guardian was terrible at unbiasedly reporting the actual news. As the Guardian has become the main left wing news due to the independant sucking on the web, I'm glad they've chilled out a bit.