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Balaji Srinivasan, VC advocating dystopian vision for San Francisco, backing push for SF tech campus
One of the groups aiming to build a square-mile “campus” in San Francisco is partially funded by "Network State" leader Balaji Srinivasan.
One of the organizations aiming to build a new tech-funded “campus” within a one-square-mile zone of central San Francisco is funded, in part, by Balaji Srinivasan, the leader of a controversial movement to crowdfund new, sovereign and tech-governed territories around the world called “ Network States.” Founded by Thomas Schulz, Solaris is one of three organizations seeking to create a tech-focused zone called City Campus, which would encompass Alamo Square, the Lower Haight and Hayes Valley, as earlier reported by the San FranciscoChronicle. “You know that there’s something called De-Ba’athification,” said Srinivasan during that four-hour appearance on the “Moment of Zen” podcast in September, referring to Iraq’s purge of members of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party after his overthrow.
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