Freedom, It's Not Just for Silicon Valley Anymore....

Silicon Valley stays quiet as Washington implodes

Computer World

The valley may vote overwhelmingly Democratic in elections, but it has a very strong libertarian streak -- it doesn't want Washington interfering with its business and start-up culture.

Too late for that, if we are to believe Edward Snowden......

Rogers argued that the politics of Washington are antithetical to Silicon Valley's core values. "The very way it works, Washington undermines the free minds and free markets that are the cornerstone of Silicon Valley's success,"

Those are the universal precursors to any human being's success.....

"The metric that differentiates Silicon Valley from Washington does not fall along conventional political lines: Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal, right versus left," Rogers said.

"It falls between freedom and control.

Again, this is the ageless human struggle....even the early sociologist Karl Marx recognized that......

Rogers has been one of but a few Silicon Valley business leaders to speak critically about the country's broad political direction. Former Intel chairman and CEO Andy Grove has been another vocal leader.

They must have been left out of the Surveillance Complex dole.....

The benefit of speaking up is questionable. Said one tech lobbyist on background: "Is rational pressure and discussion going to make irrational people act rationally?" 

This guy is a lobbyist and he has such a naive grasp of politricks as this?

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The tech industry doesn't like dealing with Washington, but spends mightily for the privilege. The industry's lobbying spending grew from $40 million in 1998, when Rodgers gave his speech, to $133 million last year, according the Center for Responsive Politics.

So we now collectively pay $133 million in protection money when we buy technology just to keep the goon squad out of the labs?


It appears there is actually a secessionist movement in Silicon Valley according to this. Must be tired of passing all that over head on to us....

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