The anti-tech campaign is based on false premises and the public isn't buying it

The anti-tech campaign is based on false premises and the public isn't buying it

6 years ago
Anonymous $uquhsGEL_U

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/14/anti-tech-propaganda-based-on-false-premises-commentary.html

If you read the popular press today, you'd think that people are about to march on Silicon Valley and Washington D.C., with pitchforks, demanding that legislators pass laws that restrict big tech from destroying the world.

The New York Times is publishing op-eds with gobsmacked titles like "Silicon Valley is Not Your Friend," in which the author argues tech companies are about to "smash the foundations of our society," while its columnist Farhad Manjoo frequently invokes the "Frightful Five" — the five biggest tech companies by market cap, Apple, Alphabet (formerly Google), Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft.