Techlash
Categories: Tech
"Finally," Washington D.C. has taken a serious look at regulating Silicon Valley. Ah, the irony.
For years, technology companies generally ignored lobbying and let the products simply speak for themselves. Consumers could choose products made in NowheresVille by numnuts. Or compete with Apple. And yeah, you know how that turned out.
But then...a whole bunch of bad stuff came out. Bad security. Abuse of data practices. Terrible internal cultural problems. Strange flavors of "racism": Silicon Valley purports to be extremely liberal, so why aren't there coders-of-color in virtually any of the most important few thousand tech jobs, much less a fair population representation of them?
Finally, D.C. has had enough. The regulators are coming. The extremely liberal politics of the Valley are likely to change, and the politicos whose hands have been fed by Valley firms in the process are going to learn what it's like to have been the hand that fed them.
Anyone else smell a solid reality TV series...like, the real version of Silicon Valley here?
