This is correct.

Feudal lords like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk will wrap themselves in fake populist notions like “free expression”, but they will never, ever tolerate speech that meaningfully challenges the entrenched power structure that they benefit from. All of their feel good taglines are an intentional misdirection designed to pacify the mob that would tear them to pieces if they actually realized what was happening. Remember “Democracy dies in darkness”? I work in Silicon Valley and I’ve been trying to educate family members who continue to mistakenly believe that the tech community is comprised of lefty California hippies. Tech will not save us from fascism. The professional media won’t either. Given the institutional corruption now fundamental to our government, I fear that there is no ‘rules-based’ solution to any of this.

This is some legit dystopian shit right here. I almost wish I hadn’t abandoned these platforms years ago, so that I could take this opportunity to do it. I hope that more people wake up to the insidious nature of this company and these services.

Keep this in mind as you listen to them claim that privacy is built right into ‘Apple Intelligence’. The profile that is being built as that system learns about you will probably grow to be the largest potential privacy threat that has ever been introduced to these devices and ecosystem. Keep that shit off your phone.

Absolute nonsense, and totally expected from the WSJ. There has been no ‘progressive moment’ to swing away from. At no point in the last half century have ‘the left’ had power, or has there been any meaningful attempt by either party to push for or enact a progressive agenda. Democrats, as a party shifted right so far during this period that the latest presidential candidate was basically touting “progressive” policy positions that would have been considered Republican 30 years ago. Of course, Republicans have shifted further right during that time also, and are now literally fascist. To suggest that the populace is rejecting progressive policies is just false gaslighting.