You want someone to blame for the rise of technofascism? Blame the oh-so-polite folks in Big Tech and its adjacent arse-kissing communities who did their best to exorcise those of us fighting it from the community while legitimising the assholes in Big Tech.
Take a fucking bow, you know who you are.
@aral That also reminds me of certain journalists who were close friends of the tech billionaires, journalists who amplified them and made a career hanging out with them, some having even written books to glorify them, and now that they can't disguise it anymore all of a sudden they appear to have developed something that would vaguely resemble ethics, if it wasn't so laughable.
@vruz You're talking about Kara Swisher?
@davidculley About all of the people who did what I described.