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by Barrin92
1585 days ago
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plainly put, propaganda. Technological companies face increasing pressure from regulators and the public and the answer is to produce their own media, see also a16z branching out into content more and more, sidestepping the press in general. Works in Progress has people like Sam Bowman from the Adam Smith Institute on board which is aligned with the kind of policies these companies would want to see. Just one article picked from the frontpage: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/interview-mike-solana-o... "Mike Solana: The first real instantiation of Techlash we saw in the media happened about a year ago, though there’s been talk of it for longer. It was anti-Uber and anti-Facebook stuff, and it all felt pretty fake. The average American doesn’t really care about those supposed problems at all. They love Uber and aren’t concerned with whether Facebook is “violating privacy.” I have plenty of friends who care a lot about privacy, especially libertarians, and they don’t like to hear this. But the average person just isn’t concerned when they get targeted advertisements for trendy leather boots or some other product that they actually want.[...] Fixing the first piece presents a difficult question: How do you tell a story about yourself that is compelling? For a long time, Tech didn’t and we got away with it because our products were just so good. It doesn’t really matter what stories you’re telling about Uber; everybody just wants to use it. It’s harder now in the midst of an aggressive negative media narrative about how evil we are." |
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In reality the techlash voices are growing at every level. Multiple governments around the world are updating legislation, imposing fines, developing new regulations.
The entire political spectrum hates Facebook for a whole host of reasons.
This isn’t just a “we need a better story” like that piece would have you believe.