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'Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
“Forget digital utopia,” wrote the longtime technology journalist Michael Malone, “we could be headed for techno-fascism.” Elsewhere, the writer Paulina Borsook called the valley’s worship of male power “a little reminiscent of the early celebrants of Eurofascism from the 1930s”. At a time when women were entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, he wrote books that argued that traditional gender roles needed to be restored, and he blamed social issues such as poverty on the breakdown of the nuclear family. As the Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, said at the time: “There’s no place like Silicon Valley, where your talents can be magnified, and the projection of that magnification is cash.” The worshipful treatment of entrepreneurs thus directly brought them more power, and it continued to inspire young men to follow the same path.
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