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I don't think there's any real problem here: conservatives in washington wants their base to think there's a conspiracy against them in tech. The technology in
by spamizbad 8y ago
I don't think there's any real problem here: conservatives in washington wants their base to think there's a conspiracy against them in tech.
The technology industry employs large numbers of people who are college-educated, millennials/yougner Gen-Xers and/or Asian-Americans: people who demographically skew left. This alone makes our industry suspect to the conservatives.
Isn't it odd that Steve Bannon starts publicly ranting about there being too many Asians in Silicon Valley and now all of a sudden we're far too liberal and censoring conservative voices... despite the fact that both Facebook and Twitter have been utilized deftly by conservatives to spread their message and communicate with their voters?
- aaronbrethorst 8y agoIt's called "working the refs": https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22working+the+refs%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22work...
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- sremani 8y agoAre you kidding me? I do not know who refs, but if Social Media companies are your refs, god bless your children.. then need lot of luck! Here is an interesting exercise - name 5 silicon valley conservative stalwarts.
- spamizbad 8y ago> Here is an interesting exercise - name 5 silicon valley conservative stalwarts. Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, Tom Perkins, David Sacks.... and for extra credit: Jeremy Tunnel, Curtis Yarvin, Brendan Eich, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Ted Dzuiba...