> It seems like newspapers are finding it "in vogue" to hate on Silicon Valley, even if they barely understand the subject
This attitude reminds me of how bankers talked right before the crisis. I don’t intend to call you out specifically. It’s a common refrain in tech. But a shift has happened and people are pissed because an industry is deciding to rationalise away responsibility for bad things that happened as a result of its products. That’s driving the perception, probably warranted, that we have lost our ability to self-regulate.
This attitude reminds me of how bankers talked right before the crisis. I don’t intend to call you out specifically. It’s a common refrain in tech. But a shift has happened and people are pissed because an industry is deciding to rationalise away responsibility for bad things that happened as a result of its products. That’s driving the perception, probably warranted, that we have lost our ability to self-regulate.