Since its 1990s heyday, Silicon Valley has transformed from an unruly collection of aggressive upstarts disrupting existing industries to a flabby collection of near-monopolies, now busy enforcing gentry-liberal norms on their employees and customers. Whether it’s censoring right-leaning political figures, or firing employees who dare say something truthful but politically incorrect, there’s not much of the old startup spirit there.Who knows when your occasionally angry or fanciful online thoughts may be judged by some faceless SJW social media minion to be "thoughtcrime" or worse?
But worse yet, they exercise tremendous power and require tremendous trust. When you use Facebook or Google (or Twitter, or Amazon, or Netflix) you’re sharing a lot of data with a company that you have to trust won’t abuse that. It’s much harder to trust a company that has decided to aggressively pursue thoughtcrime.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports Google's CEO - Sundar Pichai - has refused to testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the industry's problems with foreign meddling. Analysis: tone deaf.
