Peter Pomerantzev on Tech, Media and Democracy
The Tech Policy Press Podcast
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The Sun Has Set on Your Messy Democracy
Democracy was meant for small, you know, town halls. But now that we have all the data, it's time to give it all onto the leadership because liberal democracy can't deal with this amount of information. My sense is there is a few people in Silicon Valley who feel the same way but there does seem to be an authoritarian strain in Silicon Valley as well. There's a very interesting cycle between libertarianism that doesn't add insult authoritarianism and I kind of get it now. It's the only breed of the matters as private property, who can defend private property only decaying. And sort of what is the human that's done at the end of the day is subject to my
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