Thursday, January 30, 2025

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The Silicon Valley titans of 2025 are following the same blueprint. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was ending its DEI programs and changing its platform policies to allow more discriminatory and harassing posts. On Joe Rogan's podcast, Zuckerberg made his motivations clear: he claimed that corporate culture had moved away from "masculine energy" and needed to reinstate it after getting "neutered". Elon Musk has reshaped Twitter into X, a platform in large part operating as a response to claims of a "woke mind virus"– the newest iteration of "political correctness". And Marc Andreessen himself, the "boy genius" of the 1990s, has increasingly drawn inspiration from the Italian futurists, a movement of fascist artists in the early 20th century who glorified technology while seeking to "demolish" feminism...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism


 

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