Some scary, profound and dangerous insights here that should be a wake up call to all of us to get the eff off all for-profit internet platforms:
“I have never seen a more powerful and rich group of people who saw themselves as the victim so intensely.” This is so, so dangerous.
This: "While Silicon Valley liked to regard itself as a meritocracy, she calls it a “mirrortocracy, full of people who liked their own reflection so much that they only saw value in those that looked the same”. She suggests a reason the leaders so often ignore the impact on customer safety is “they had never felt unsafe a day in their lives”.
I worry sometime that ovarit might fall prey to this: Swisher notes “in the new paradigm, engagement equals enragement”. It has certainly made GC feminists huge targets.
My question is how can we all know this is true and not care:
> Even if it was never the intention, tech companies became key players in killing our comity and stymieing our politics, our government, our social fabric, and most of all, our minds, by seeding isolation, outrage, and addictive behaviour.>
Tech has set women back decades bc of this. What it has done to children is unforgivable.
The Tech bros are our new Roman emperors. The power they have over society is unprecedented and really scary.
I worry sometimes that Ovarit might fall prey to this. Yeah, to be fair Ovarit was set up with the sole aim of being a place where GC feminists could openly talk to each other, vent, and share information without censorship. It is what it says on the label. These tech organizations are like the liberal men in the last Victoria Smith article - lots of posturing pretending they support women, papering over the undercurrent of misogyny.
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Some scary, profound and dangerous insights here that should be a wake up call to all of us to get the eff off all for-profit internet platforms: “I have never seen a more powerful and rich group of people who saw themselves as the victim so intensely.” This is so, so dangerous.
This: "While Silicon Valley liked to regard itself as a meritocracy, she calls it a “mirrortocracy, full of people who liked their own reflection so much that they only saw value in those that looked the same”. She suggests a reason the leaders so often ignore the impact on customer safety is “they had never felt unsafe a day in their lives”.
I worry sometime that ovarit might fall prey to this: Swisher notes “in the new paradigm, engagement equals enragement”. It has certainly made GC feminists huge targets.
My question is how can we all know this is true and not care: > Even if it was never the intention, tech companies became key players in killing our comity and stymieing our politics, our government, our social fabric, and most of all, our minds, by seeding isolation, outrage, and addictive behaviour.>
Tech has set women back decades bc of this. What it has done to children is unforgivable.
The Tech bros are our new Roman emperors. The power they have over society is unprecedented and really scary.
I worry sometimes that Ovarit might fall prey to this. Yeah, to be fair Ovarit was set up with the sole aim of being a place where GC feminists could openly talk to each other, vent, and share information without censorship. It is what it says on the label. These tech organizations are like the liberal men in the last Victoria Smith article - lots of posturing pretending they support women, papering over the undercurrent of misogyny.