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I always thought the 'techlash' was more of an elite discourse thing than a real grassroots thing. Elizabeth Warren launched her primary campaign with big billb

by firasd 4y ago

I always thought the 'techlash' was more of an elite discourse thing than a real grassroots thing. Elizabeth Warren launched her primary campaign with big billboards saying 'Break Up Big Tech' and that campaign wasn't very successful. To the extent that people were generally mad at Facebook a lot of it was a hangover from the 2016 election

fallingknife 4y ago
This is 100% correct. People love Amazon because it's super convenient. The "techlash" is astroturf from the media and politicians. https://reason.com/2021/07/06/poll-people-like-amazon-more-than-any-institution-but-the-u-s-military/ https://reason.com/2021/07/06/poll-people-like-amazon-more-t...
throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Even if that wasn't the case yesterday it is today. The plumber doesn't have the luxury of caring WTF FB and Google are up to when his van eats $100 of gas every day. There's a baseline amount of economic stability in one's lifestyle that's needed before people care about fairly abstract and diffuse problems like big tech and the environment.
- dominotw 4y ago
  True. Most of my working class mexican family don't know what exactly is Latinx or why they should be referring to themselves as latinx. Democratic party is dominated by "college educated females" and media pundits so much so they they have separated themselves into a safe space from people they are supposedly advocating for.
ch4s3 4y ago
No only that, but I think journalists in elite publications feel threatened by the likes of Google and Facebook.
svnt 4y ago
It is my understanding that this is basically how the dissemination of opinions and ideas work. The fact that at a frozen moment in history a leading edge opinion did not garner much popular support does not mean it will not be popular in the future. We are in the future.

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I always thought the 'techlash' was more of an elite discourse thing than a real grassroots thing. Elizabeth Warren launched her primary campaign with big billb

by firasd 4y ago

fallingknife 4y ago
This is 100% correct. People love Amazon because it's super convenient. The "techlash" is astroturf from the media and politicians. https://reason.com/2021/07/06/poll-people-like-amazon-more-than-any-institution-but-the-u-s-military/ https://reason.com/2021/07/06/poll-people-like-amazon-more-t...
throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Even if that wasn't the case yesterday it is today. The plumber doesn't have the luxury of caring WTF FB and Google are up to when his van eats $100 of gas every day. There's a baseline amount of economic stability in one's lifestyle that's needed before people care about fairly abstract and diffuse problems like big tech and the environment.
- dominotw 4y ago
  True. Most of my working class mexican family don't know what exactly is Latinx or why they should be referring to themselves as latinx. Democratic party is dominated by "college educated females" and media pundits so much so they they have separated themselves into a safe space from people they are supposedly advocating for.
ch4s3 4y ago
No only that, but I think journalists in elite publications feel threatened by the likes of Google and Facebook.
svnt 4y ago
It is my understanding that this is basically how the dissemination of opinions and ideas work. The fact that at a frozen moment in history a leading edge opinion did not garner much popular support does not mean it will not be popular in the future. We are in the future.