Sally Kohn: We often talk about the tech industry as though this libertarian phase kind of defines what it is and where it comes from. But I feel like increasingly, we need to look back to that earlier stage when it's very much a state contractor," she says. "It doesn't really matter whether a sensible liberals are in charge at Google or right-wingers are in charge" She thinks Silicon Valley has chosen to line up next to the US for both reasons of self-preservation and profit.
Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the politics of the PayPal Mafia tech billionaires, and how they’re trying to reshape US political discourse to serve themselves.
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