{"id":17525,"date":"2025-01-29T10:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/headed-for-technofascism-the-rightwing-roots-of-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:37:28","slug":"headed-for-technofascism-the-rightwing-roots-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/headed-for-technofascism-the-rightwing-roots-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Headed for technofascism\u2019: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The industry\u2019s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies \u2013 celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity \u2013 have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s<\/p>\n<p>An influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the \u201cpussification\u201d of tech. A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader\u2019s calls for diversifying the tech workforce. Technologists rage against the \u201cPC police\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No, this isn\u2019t Silicon Valley in the age of Maga. It\u2019s the tech industry of the 1990s, when observers first raised concerns about the rightwing bend of Silicon Valley and the potential for \u201ctechnofascism\u201d. Despite the industry\u2019s (often undeserved) reputation for liberalism, its reactionary foundations were baked in almost from the beginning. As Silicon Valley enters a second Trump administration, the gendered roots of its original reactionary movement offer insight into today\u2019s rightward turn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2025\/jan\/29\/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a2339875682ca8b70545e976de4a4c8451f35ff2\/93_51_2821_1694\/master\/2821.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d8052bae681e6564d077a9e2e9a08a70\" title=\"\u2018Headed for technofascism\u2019: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley\" \/>The industry\u2019s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies \u2013 celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity \u2013 have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s<br \/>\nAn influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the \u201cpussification\u201d of tech. A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader\u2019s calls for diversifying the tech workforce. Technologists rage against the \u201cPC police\u201d.<br \/>\nNo, this isn\u2019t Silicon Valley in the age of Maga. It\u2019s the tech industry of the 1990s, when observers first raised concerns about the rightwing bend of Silicon Valley and the potential for \u201ctechnofascism\u201d. Despite the industry\u2019s (often undeserved) reputation for liberalism, its reactionary foundations were baked in almost from the beginning. As Silicon Valley enters a second Trump administration, the gendered roots of its original reactionary movement offer insight into today\u2019s rightward turn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industry\u2019s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies \u2013 celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity \u2013 have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s An influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the \u201cpussification\u201d of tech. A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader\u2019s calls for diversifying the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/headed-for-technofascism-the-rightwing-roots-of-silicon-valley\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Headed for technofascism\u2019: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}