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The Guardian really has it out for Silicon Valley these days. Every day there’s a new article. Pretty astounding.
by austenallred 9y ago
The Guardian really has it out for Silicon Valley these days. Every day there’s a new article. Pretty astounding.
- StevePerkins 9y ago> "In response to concerns about Russian interference in the 2016 election, politicians are threatening to take action against companies they have long left alone. By late September this year, when the Senate intelligence committee demanded that Facebook, Google and Twitter conduct internal investigations – and those companies admitted that, yes, foreign actors had used their platforms to communicate misinformation that was viewed millions of times by voters in hotly contested swing states – it seemed fair to ask whether democracy could survive them." I think the above quote is telling. A not-so-insignificant portion of the media class is grasping at the "Russia 'hacked' the election!" story, with the same fervor as a Birther grasping for President Obama's birth certificate.
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- Apocryphon 9y agoWell, at least this one serves as an aggregator of previous ones, and even presents some solutions rather than just criticisms.
- dtornabene 9y agoor maybe its doing its job? Silicon valley has outsized power in DC (and politics in general), is largely unregulated, not unionized, and outside of the financial industry, is one of the largest concentrations of capital in the world. I'd say thats a place/industry worthy of way more then just one article a day.