Technology firms as a threat to basic liberties
This headline is valuable in being so precisely mistaken.<p>I&#x27;ve been around Silicon Valley since the late 90s. It hasn&#x27;t changed. What has changed is the amount of attention you can get by attacking it.<p>When Google was little, it seemed cute and inconsequential. To attack it would have seemed mean (and inconsequential). Now that Google is big, attacking it reads instead as &quot;speaking truth to power.&quot; But Google is no more evil now than it was in the past. Which is not to say that Google was ever perfect, just that the change in reporters&#x27; attitudes toward it derives – whether the reporters realize it or not – from nothing more than its increased size.