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user-inactivated · 3826 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley
His good points are paraphrases of points people in the industry have been making since the early 00s when we started seeing particular sites becoming dominant, presented as if they were controversial rather than the general consensus among technologists. He then makes some offhand remarks taking contrary positions without supporting them (presenting taxi services as being in the right buying protection against Uber from city governments), and calls for government intervention in the Internet to be provocative. He is as much a charlatan as the cheerleaders he's made a career out of trolling, and more harmful because we actually do need more critics, but everyone trying to take that role gets drowned out by him and Jaron Lanier.