Peter Thiel Dreams of Empire | TechPolicy.Press
The “Tech Right” is just one faction in a rising alliance of thinkers, policymakers, and industrialists that spans the political spectrum, united by their focus on accelerating American innovation to drive growth and global primacy. I’ll refer to this blob as the “progress coalition.”3 They are the most dynamic and interesting policy machine on the... See more
🌻 tech right (disambiguation)
the tech companies that greenlight transactions, communications, and online behavior have in many ways become the de facto privatized governments of the Western world.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
US establishment actually bought their own narrative in the 1990s and 2000s about their ostensibly free and democratic society. Only now are they realizing that the many speech and thought controls that their predecessors had set up and hidden in plain sight - like stringent regulations and high capital requirements for broadcast content production
... See moreBalaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
But that is the situation. A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet, if not the richest, whose own interests are tangled up in those of rival governments and foreign autocr... See more