How Things Work

The celebrity privacy case that exposes hypocrisy of Silicon Valley power brokers | Media | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/28/gawker-hulk-hogan-silicon-valley-privacy-peter-thiel

Now that the tech media do not even bother concealing they are just a PR appendage to Silicon Valley, you have to worry how the accumulation of so much power and cash in one industry – combined with aggressive legal campaigns targeting the few who, for whatever reason, are still critical of it – is happening at a time when there is no one to keep our new elites on their toes. It is sad and pathetic that this public function has to be performed by the likes of Gawker but it would be even more pathetic if it were not performed by anyone.

#oligarchie #Evgeny_Morozov

cc @mona Ah le Diplo se met au catch, bientôt le rugby !

Suite et fin, Gawker, ruiné, disparaît — How Things Work — l’oraison funèbre de son fondateur, Nick Denton
▻https://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699

As our experience has shown, that freedom was illusory. The system is still there. It pushed back. The power structure remains. There are just some new people at the apex, prime among them the techlords flush with monopoly profits. They are as sensitive to criticism as any other ruling class, but with the confidence that they can transform and disrupt anything, from government to the press.

#vie_privée