Dr. Peter Klein on Silicon Valley Socialism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ย. 2024
- Silicon Valley used to be a hotbed of libertarian thought, a place where innovation mattered more than government. Today, companies like Twitter and Facebook serve as de facto editors, banning users like Alex Jones for "wrong-think." Google dominates search, but may steer search results. And Amazon serves nefarious clients like the NSA with its cloud infrastructure. And all of them employ plenty of lobbyists to avoid the kind of government anti-trust suit Microsoft faced nearly 20 years ago.
Libertarians oppose regulation, but also oppose censorship and politically correct culling of opinion. Dr. Peter Klein recently addressed these topics and more, in a talk illustrating how the technology sector has drastically changed in recent years-and how tech firms evolved into media companies focused on influence instead of innovation. He argues that social-media companies put on a public facade of being private and free of government influence, but behind the really lobby for protection against competition.
There's a pretty straight-forward reason, and Peter Thiel has talked about that for a long time. Silicon Valley is simply the "hip" industry all the hyper-agreeable high potentials stream towards. The same way "dot-com" outside of the valley was in the 90s, and finance was until the financial crisis. On top of that, there's an ideologically driven crowd of college graduate activists within HR departments, etc. making the impression that "social justice" is the right thing to care about, and the lemmings follow in lockstep. The last thing these people want is to be a lone dissenter.
Danan, You are much closer to the truth on this issue than is Peter Klein. These younger businesspeople were influenced in college by Neo-Marxists. Then they graduated and went into business to carry out their interests in technology or whatever and to make a lot of money in the process. They agreed with Gordon Gekko when he observed, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing for money." But then their "better angel" called to them and said, "What can we do with our wealth and power that we earned in the meritocracy of the marketplace? We know. We can use our influential positions to further the social advancement of the favored racial and sexual minorities along with females we realized in college had been oppressed throughout history to produce a more just society."
That "social justice" is restricted only to social status. They have no regard for their workers or anyone else in terms of standards of living, wages, working conditions or anything else that would cost them very much in terms of $$$. These social egalitarians have no use for socialism (i.e. government ownership of the means of production), government regulation to improve working conditions or raise wages for their workers. These new Robber Barons can salve their "social conscience" by pushing their PC codes while collecting as much cash as they can possibly get their grubby hands on.
21:53 Is anyone mesmerized with his hand gestures here?
23:04 and here
This video was very much needed.😗
if social media CENSORS content, they Must lose their immunity to lawsuits.
Anyone insulted or smeared on ANY social media account should SUE them *NOW* since they are no longer neutral platforms, to get that distinction of "curating content" out in front of the debate, and SCARE the fuckers into backing off from their social control posture.
People have no idea that this was started around 1997 and on when all companies that did business must be apart of the Consortium. This gave the military industrial complex the ability to steer all tech companies and allowed backdoors to be implemented. First it was chips on the board that testers and architects and designers had to debug and questioned what was the purpose of these chips and when processors had serial numbers that could be traced and those who monitor these violation created a fire storm of privacy. Then they switched to as software, BIOS, and firmware and program developers were forced by Government to allow backdoors and even now are still doing it because it harder to detect especially in the virtual environment and cloud. To keep a lid on what was happening because we are a Republic and our Laws require disclosure problems that effect privacy and Security. Businesses have forgotten the reason why NIST was formed because American businesses were aware of the fact that Government was a threat to intellectual Property and wanted crypto codes that ensured privacy because knowledge is power and power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts completely. But NSA who was in charge of the crypto algorithms weakened them so they could be cracked and did not tell anyone. Communist Socialist idealism that was used to keep all this under wraps until Edward Snowden and the cracking of MD5 in a matter of months not years with Distributed Computer Programs and everyone started to question why was this it possible. It is easier to control the Technical Community if you used Communist Socialist ideology to hold the Secrecy which was not just for intellectual rights but help from the government to those companies who held their secrets and in the process it allowed a climate where power was responsible for corporate espionage to bolster not only the Tech giants but accomplish the governments goal of maintaining control and secrecy. And this was only the beginning when you understand what Smith vs Maryland did to Lava Bit.
Don't ban or sensor anything on the net. If it isn't illegal leave it alone
The social media cartel are an unnatural monopoly so there are no other competing platforms. For conservatives and libertarians, unilaterally surrendering by closing their accounts and no longer pushing back against leftists isnt an option. It would be similar to all southern congressmen quitting the USGOV, the northern congressmen would go hog wild.
O'Sullivan's Law
Lode STONE, not Lode STAR.
Isn't capitalism also anti-capitalist? Meaning that working towards a monopoly, having almost achieved that a company has nothing left than to turn anti free market to consolidate its monopoly? *I should learn to wait with commenting until I've seen the whole thing, seems I jumped the gun
Well ... The Muses Institute is the only content I consume on TH-cam.
And a totalitarian form of socialism, that is.
In all fairness, Gary Johnson should have gotten 0% of campaign contributions.
Gary Johnson was no social conservative. He explicitly said so.
@@christophergraves6725 , you know what else he was not? A viable candidate!
I dont know how much "value" Facebook has brought to humanity.... Maybe, the memes.
What about Fox News. They cozy up to government?
They did when Bush was in office, but MSNBC did the same thing when Obama was.
Fox provides some measure of much needed balance and have actual journalists and real reporters.The other corporate media long ago relinquished any pretense of objectivity. They are pure propagandists.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NY TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, and every large urban newspaper are virtual stenographers for the Democrats. When Obama was in office, these "news" outlets shilled and fawned over him to an extent that Pravda would have been embarrassed to do with Stalin
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I live in a typical deep blue eastern state: Goldman Sachs billionaire governor, no electoral representation, one party newspaper and one party TV station (both owned by the same Democrat donors). All I get to do is pay my (high) taxes. Who is representing ‘my’ interests?
Without Fox and talk radio, half the population (paying about 98% of taxes) would be reduced to samizdat activity.
Like Alex Jones? He's a joke and socialism is stupid.
Everybody stop using TH-cam....oh wait
still working on viable alternatives. BitChute needs to get its sh*t together
I'm with you. Once I can hear all the Mises Institute content on podcast form, that will be the end of TH-cam for me.