[GPSCC-chat] Silicon Valley Wealth and Power

[Gerry Gras]

FYI,

TomDispatch has an item,
"Rebecca Solnit, How to Act Like a Billionaire",
which is an intro by Tom Englehart plus a column by Rebecca Solnit,
"Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire ... Google Eats the World".

This was published on June 25th, before the Inhofe fundraiser.


First paragraph (of Solnit's column):
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Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans 
of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the world’s third-largest company 
in market value. The new round of discussion began even before the 
revelations that the tech giants were routinely sharing our data with 
the National Security Agency, or maybe merging with it. Simultaneously 
another set of journalists, apparently unaware that the weather has 
changed, is still sneering at San Francisco, my hometown, for not lying 
down and loving Silicon Valley’s looming presence.
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http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175717/

Gerry