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Silicon Valley Moral Hypocrisy
Dec. 8th, 2018 08:24 pmThis comment from a youtube user regarding Tim Cook's recent virtue-signalling storm where he bleated on about his amazing powers of censorship:
This one sentence beautifully sums of the sheer absurdity of the obnoxious moralizing behavior we're starting to see more and more from the heads of Silicon Valley tech behemoths. These statements, usually steeped in the sort of vapid virute-signalling that totally insults the intelligence of anyone who isn't a brainwashed progressive ideologue. It does take a hefty dose of cognitive dissonance and doublethink to unironically believe that giant corporations are anything more than sociopathic money-grabbing machines, much less organizations that act on anything resembling ethical motives.
As Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin) stated in the summary of the video he just uploaded on Patreon's totally arbitrary banning of his account, "The Great White Saviours of Silicon Valley are actively looking for ways to deplatform anyone who is not politically correct, as Patreon did to me."
Being lectured to on ethics by a Silicon Valley billionaire who makes his products using Third World labour and is unanswerable to anyone is such a joy.
This one sentence beautifully sums of the sheer absurdity of the obnoxious moralizing behavior we're starting to see more and more from the heads of Silicon Valley tech behemoths. These statements, usually steeped in the sort of vapid virute-signalling that totally insults the intelligence of anyone who isn't a brainwashed progressive ideologue. It does take a hefty dose of cognitive dissonance and doublethink to unironically believe that giant corporations are anything more than sociopathic money-grabbing machines, much less organizations that act on anything resembling ethical motives.
As Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin) stated in the summary of the video he just uploaded on Patreon's totally arbitrary banning of his account, "The Great White Saviours of Silicon Valley are actively looking for ways to deplatform anyone who is not politically correct, as Patreon did to me."
