Donald Trump Making Powerful Enemies In Silicon Valley
http://www.benzinga.com/news/15/08/5779322/donald-trump-making-powerful-enemies-in-silicon-valley
While the tech industry has been historically uninvolved
in politics, the recent net neutrality battle in Washington
proved that Silicon Valley has the ability to make its voice
heard. That's why presidential hopeful Donald Trump may be in
for a world of hurt after he called out Facebook Inc's founder
and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the weekend.
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I have been avoiding discussing Trump on these lists -- though I'm
saying plenty over on my G+ feed. So since he has now injected himself
into the tech field I'll take this opportunity to note that he's the
closest analogue to Adolf Hitler I've seen in the U.S. in my lifetime. I
say this without fear of invoking "Godwin's Law" -- because the
parallels are clearly in focus, and not spurious. Of particular note is
the event in the news today where a Hispanic man was violently attacked
by two men professing to be following Trump's example. But it wasn't
what they did that was so noteworthy in this context, it was Trump's
response. He didn't call for a cessation of such attacks. He said, "My
supporters are passionate" -- echoing the famous leader of National
Socialism in Germany on the topic of attacks on Jews: "I have passionate
supporters." Q.E.D.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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