[HN Gopher] Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they ...
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Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be
Author : rmason
Score : 22 points
Date : 2023-03-25 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.latimes.com)
| alphaomegacode wrote:
| I was wondering why The LA Times would publish a story that seems
| intent on somehow linking 1970s threats of violence with the
| recent SVB issue. It was only after reading the article did I see
| the author has a book coming out on a "tech backlash".
|
| Of course there are complaints against tech companies and of
| course it comes from left, right and center. That's because tech
| is now woven into our personal and corporate lives.
|
| But suggesting any large numbers of persons advocating violence
| seems a real reach and could be seen by many as plain
| irresponsible.
| Teever wrote:
| > Of course there are complaints against tech companies and of
| course it comes from left, right and center. That's because
| tech is now woven into our personal and corporate lives.
|
| You seem to be minimizing these 'complaints' with your second
| sentence. Do you feel that criticisms levelled by people
| outside of silicon valley are valid, and how do you think these
| people should best go about seeking redress for these
| criticisms?
| uejfiweun wrote:
| I hate it when you start reading an article and then suddenly
| the author starts talking about their new book. It becomes
| immediately clear that the article's entire purpose was to
| advertise the book and that you have just wasted your time. So
| thank you for doing the scout work for me here.
| rmason wrote:
| Most of the people here on HN don't remember when the far left
| hated computers, but I do. To me the most famous case is when
| Adobe's Chuck Geschke was kidnapped and held for ransom.
|
| I've been to meetings at Adobe HQ and the security there is still
| tighter than a lot of other Valley headquarters and a lot of even
| their employees don't know the reason why.
| pyuser583 wrote:
| Ted Kaczynski had (has?) a flowing among the far left.
| jleyank wrote:
| Things like Alexa and other talk-to/monitor life gadgets would
| give the old radicals fits. "Big brother, please order me some
| paper towels." People used to be concerned re being tabulated,
| now they facilitate it.
| pixl97 wrote:
| And may regret it again soon when their AI overlords fall
| under authoritarian control.
| vt85 wrote:
| [dead]
| andrewfromx wrote:
| "On the morning of May 26, 1992, as Geschke was arriving for
| work in Mountain View, California, he was kidnapped at gunpoint
| from the Adobe parking lot by two men, Mouhannad Albukhari, 26,
| of San Jose, and Jack Sayeh, 25, of Campbell. A spokesperson
| for the FBI reported that the agency had monitored phone calls
| that the kidnappers had made to Geschke's wife, demanding a
| ransom. The spokesperson added that Albukhari had been arrested
| after he had picked up the $650,000 ransom that Geschke's
| daughter had left at a drop-off point. An FBI agent explained
| that, "after a gentlemanly discussion", Albukhari had brought
| them to a bungalow in Hollister, where Sayeh had been holding
| Geschke hostage. Geschke was released unhurt after being held
| for four days, although he stated that he had been chained. The
| two kidnappers were eventually sentenced to life terms in state
| prison."
|
| wow. I had no idea. From:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke
| evolve2k wrote:
| "In other words, they'd rather keep up the flame wars on social
| media and build survival bunkers in Montana than address the
| social ills their critics charge them with exacerbating."
|
| Nails it.
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