How Evil Is Tech?
The social atomization trend in the west began long before facebooks and googles even existed, before the Internet was available to the general public. They, and Facebook in particular, probably aren&#x27;t helping but they didn&#x27;t cause it either.<p>What bothers me the most about these tech giants is the complete about face on free speech. Companies that couldn&#x27;t exist without it, that couldn&#x27;t have been founded without the open web (Google) and belief in freedom of communication (Twitter), as bastions of free speech (Reddit) are now busy coming up with new ways to censor their users. This is part of their progressive culture mentioned in the OP but a very specific one.<p>I don&#x27;t know how many people still care but this is how they lost all my goodwill towards them.