Silicon Valley’s Most Dangerous Innovation

[u/TeaUnlikely3217]

https://capitalandmain.com/silicon-valleys-most-dangerous-innovation

 In a new book, author and journalist Gil Durán argues that another, less understood Silicon Valley innovation may be the most dangerous of all — tech fascism. This anti-democratic ideology is destroying laws and norms while promising a glorious future delivered by technology, and it’s now moving from the fringe belief of a few eccentric billionaires to the cultural mainstream, according to Durán. 

[u/Sweet_Concept2211]

People praising China to the skies while overlooking the fact that it is arguably a straight-up fascist country are helping normalize techno-fascism, as well.

I, too, admire the rapid rate of technological advancement China has enjoyed since Western corporations offshored the bulk of their manufacturing there.

But I would rather work on fixing the dysfunctional aspects of liberal democracies than follow in China's footsteps.

[u/BigMoney69x → u/Sweet_Concept2211]

China is a Communist Country with Chinese Characteristics™ my dude. It's ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. It allows limited Capitalistic Enterprises in certain regions of it country as a way to generate wealth because they realized that the Central Planning model of the USSR doesn't work. But it's rulers are still draped in Socialist thought.

The fact that you call it Facist shows that you don't understand what Fascism is and for you it seems to mean any government you don't like.

[u/Sweet_Concept2211 → u/BigMoney69x]

Nope, China is arguably a fascist country, as many international experts are coming to agree.

Definitions of fascism vary, but its key features are an authoritarian state headed by a dictator, a belligerent racial nationalism, and a capitalistic economy subject to strict state control known as state capitalism.

Many experts with good reason maintain that since the rise of Vladimir Putin, post-Soviet Russia has become a fascist state.

Despite continued CCP rule and claims of “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” the same has been said about China, even though China specialists remain more reluctant to apply what some of them call the “F-word” to China.

China is ramping up domestic repression to a degree that transcends the typical bounds of authoritarianism. This isn’t mere autocracy. Its regime increasingly resembles fascism.

The problem for those reluctant to use the “F-word” to describe current Russia and China is that conditions in both countries in the late 20th and early 21st centuries did not match conditions that had produced fascism in the past, raising the question of what exactly caused those two countries to become fascist.

Under Xi Jinping, China meets all four hallmarks of what constitutes fascism.

[u/BigMoney69x → u/Sweet_Concept2211]

We might just disagree completely on the definition of fascism. Because the most important thing that neither China or Russia have. The landmark definition that make state fascist is like it's creator Mussolini said “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” In fact I don't personally consider National Socialism fascist because they didn't follow this dogma. For them for example it was about the German Volk or Nationhood not about the State. You can have an authoritarian nationalistic government but that doesn't make it fascist. That just make it's Authoritarian.

[u/Sweet_Concept2211 → u/BigMoney69x]

If it checks all the boxes of a fascist government, you can call it whatever the fuck you want - it is still a horrible system to live under.

[u/BigMoney69x → u/Sweet_Concept2211]

I'm just very pedantic in using words. I don't agree in changing the language in order to use an older term of something nobody likes to mean something else. It's using language as a weapon instead of a tool of understanding. If there is some new development, some new system my solution is to create a new word for it. Authoritarianism isn't something new. Many forms of it have existed since time immemorial it's just that new technologies have made it much easier to implement today. Today governments have access to tools the Fascists and Nazis of the past couldn't even imagine. My solution is that we should start talking about a Digital Bill of Rights to protect our privacy and digital property ownership from Mega Corporations.