Silicon Valley: that moment when your best argument is that you’re arguably better than the worst of the worst.
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Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan
What they’re saying here is basically that they’re just as powerful and as much a threat to human rights & democracy as Chinese companies but they’re mostly white so it’s better. That’s the argument sustaining Silicon Valley right now: better that a white man has all this power.https://twitter.com/aral/status/1020250220179918848 …
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Of course, unmentioned as always, is that no one should have such power and that we know how to build technological infrastructure that is free/open, decentralised, and interoperable so that no one would. Also unmentioned: what’s at stake is personhood and democracy.
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