In today's Pirate Wires, Mike Solana writes "the bank bust fallout revealed for certain what we already knew: tech is now universally hated."
He goes on: "Congrats to agents of the years-long media campaign to fundamentally tarnish the industry."– I assume he's referring to things like this.
He notes that even though big tech censored so as to beneift Democrat candidates, the Dems have turned on them (gasp). "Democrats may be socially liberal, values from which the tech alliance was born, but they reflexively loathe the rich, find the concept of entrepreneurial ambition suspicious, and fetishize a cartoonish portrait of the working class they believe at odds with the men and women who actually build businesses."
This reminds me of something that has always nagged at me: much as I enjoy their writing, heterodox thinkers such as Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi & Michael Shellenberger put out origin stories that have always bothered me. "Oh!" they say, "I was a happy man/woman of the left until a few years ago when the left just went crazy, and I had to leave!"
As someone who's been a conservative for his adult life, that always rankled: the left has always been censurious as a means to power. The one & only political protest in which I participated was in the nineties, and was opposed to a "free speech policy" that sought to govern what words one could use on campus. I would suggest to them that the left did not go crazy a few years ago: rather, it was a few years ago that the mob got around to coming for them.
Likewise, if Solana is correct, perhaps tech is realizing that the mob is now coming for them. Regardless, I agree with his conclusion "When power amasses to destroy you, persuade it, subvert it, or build something better. Just do it quickly."