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The Year Silicon Valley Went Morally Bankrupt
- internaut 10y agotldr; Gawker was a "critical investigative news outlet" say people who worked for Gawker. And the media wonder why they've lost credibility.
- thisnotmyacc 10y agoPolitical - isn't there a moratorium on that?
- paulddraper 10y agoYeah. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 > Thiel has been publicly vague about the specific policy alignments he shares with Donald Trump—but the two share a certain grandiosity and a disdain for the government, as well as a warped view of what it means to be a good and decent human being.
- miraj 10y agothink the moratorium is over: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
- samstave 10y agoThe day Palantir was founded? Oracle founded? Cisco caving to NSA backdoors in the early 90s? Seems like there may be many days where this occurred.
- ohwello 10y agoThis editorial's grand conclusion is not backed up by its supporting examples. Theil is one guy, and most of Silicon Valley disagrees with him. Of course there are tons of Trump supporters across any industry you can think of. Tech probably has disproportionately less, considering local election returns. Fake news is a problem, and Facebook is working on it. Pinning the actions of the Comet Ping Pong shooter on Facebook, and the moral bankruptcy of Silicon Valley, is absurd. The Pizzagate conspiracy theory community was on Reddit. Seems like the author just threw together some vaguely related events.
- baccheion 10y ago> "Tech moguls are trying to remake the world.." No, they are trying to get more attention, power, and money. This is made especially clear by "me too" startups receiving almost all funding, and all "big talk" eventually amounting to empty words.
- paulddraper 10y agoYeah, my thought too. Plain ol' "getting rich" is the more common motivator.