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The Nation: Silicon Valley is fully MAGA-Pilled (www.thenation.com)

submitted 5 months ago by UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Seeing a sudden surge in interest in the "Tech Right" as they're being dubbed. Often the focus is on business motivations like tax breaks but I think there's more to it. The narrative that silicon Valley is a bunch of tech hippies was well sown early on, particularly by Stewart Brand and his ilk but throughout that period and prior, the intersection between tech and authoritative politics that favours systems over people is well established.

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[–] ByteOnBikes 13 points 5 months ago

A few of the tech conferences that are more corporate, often lean conservative. Not like right wing "hell yeah MAGA", but like clearly focused on enterprise technology, FAANG (Or whatever we call it now), and tech bros.

The tech conferences focused on developers/non-corporate tech often lean towards liberal. Lots of Trans rights. Lots of LGBT flags. Lots of diversity of speakers and attendees. Usually also very open-source friendly and lots of bashing of major tech companies.