Justin Phillips the author of this column is not a serious thinker. This piece, for example, cites a hodgepodge of unrelated facts and seems to blame the tech i

Justin Phillips the author of this column is not a serious thinker. This piece, for example, cites a hodgepodge of unrelated facts and seems to blame the tech industry writ large for: redlining, neighborhood downzoning, white flight, and gentrification. All of these phenomenon were part of the American city half a century ago. He also seems to struggle with teasing apart disparate impact and unequal representation, so not only is his narrative understanding poor, his statistical understanding is even worse. And then at the end claims, "It’s hard to talk about these kinds of projects without mentioning the concept of the Network State" which - actually - it's not that hard! Nobody cares about the network state. It has the form of someone who tried to write a book report without doing the reading.