Silicon Valley
US Orders Visa Screening of Foreign Tech Workers Involved in Online Censorship
A new immigration filter asks not just what foreign tech workers can build, but what speech they’ve helped bury.
Biden targets social media companies during State of the Union address
Calls for regulation.
Tech CEO Peter Rex says we need to support “alternative tech power structures” outside of Silicon Valley
The Rex CEO outlines a new plan.
Nick Searcy to launch new Hollywood-alternative streaming platform that doesn’t censor for China
The service will launch next year and won’t feature any “anti-American” content.
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says those who don’t conform to activism in business will be shot
An assertion of political violence towards those that don’t conform.
Joe Biden says game developers are “little creeps”, teach people how to kill
Biden isn’t a fan video games that contain violence.
Ex-Google and Facebook employee says silicon valley’s use of H1B visa is “institutional slavery”
The fact that foreign workers depend on continued employment to avoid deportation means that they will accept working conditions and treatment by managers that US workers, with incomparably greater job options, never would.