If people have a knee-jerk reaction by now, it is not against technology so much as the people pushing it.
The tech industry has to face the fact that they are going to be viewed with suspicion going forward when they have: 1) blatantly or passively championed deregulation; 2) are okay with or actively for algorithmic capture of reality with divide and rule that invariably gives an edge to politicians with the least democratic instincts imaginable (all of the GOP and a handful of conservadems) and 3) hyped up mediocre, sub-standard trash like it’s amazing. That last makes the deregulation and secrecy with which they operate look especially suspicious. These are people with such huge egos. If they are secretive as they typically are, it’s not something awesome they are hiding. It’s collateral damage and mediocrity ffs. A credulous or bought off tech press gushes about so much junk that the whole enterprise has lost all credibility.
I would love for the backlash against Trump to focus on these technofascists over pettier crap in a populace that is going crazy.
They are the cancer striking at the very roots of democracy and this wasn’t overnight. This is a 20 year (at least) project at this point.
These are their bloody patron saints:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/google-ap-amit-mehta-san-francisco-sundar-pichai-b2592280.html
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-eliminate-regulations
This is the world they want-where “woke” or left is a bloody sleazy monopolist and covert fascist like Google and the right is the increasingly Nazi, overtly fascistic Musk.
None of this is about tech. That’s a strawman.
It’s about these parasitic billionaires (and their sycophants) behind the tech.
(And I scoff at any MTG style “populists” they try to shill next. With that ass Vance pretending to be a fan of Bernie, Zohran and Ro Khanna (I guess AOC, being a woman, didn’t make the cut), some sort of totally phony, Thiel funded astroturf “anti tech” is going to be the next bullshit pitch to exploit the backlash.
It’s one long exasperating grift. It’s similar to an ass like Tristan Harris sounding faux alarms about tech - those fake populists of the GOP.)
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