There has been a major culture shift in 'Silicon Valley' due to the unprecedented concentration of wealth there. Politics is largely pay-to-play and Big Tech has all the money to influence the political landscape. Once the Big Tech misfits realized this, they started throwing their weight around and ignited the culture war. 'New money' Big Tech figures quickly get approached by the usual suspects and they're informed of their new privileged position.
It's now part of the Silicon Valley culture that Big Tech will exert an outsized influence over the political landscape.
The 'fight the power' anti-government/authoritarian tech/hacker movement of the nineties is all but dead and has been replaced by an authoritarian oligarchy that functions through a clientelist political system.
All Big Tech figures are unhinged types.
There has been a major culture shift in 'Silicon Valley' due to the unprecedented concentration of wealth there. Politics is largely pay-to-play and Big Tech has all the money to influence the political landscape. Once the Big Tech misfits realized this, they started throwing their weight around and ignited the culture war. 'New money' Big Tech figures quickly get approached by the usual suspects and they're informed of their new privileged position.
It's now part of the Silicon Valley culture that Big Tech will exert an outsized influence over the political landscape.
The 'fight the power' anti-government/authoritarian tech/hacker movement of the nineties is all but dead and has been replaced by an authoritarian oligarchy that functions through a clientelist political system.