Silicon Valley's Selective Outrage
📰 THE STORY: Mainstream media reports that tech executives, while actively wooing Donald Trump, are simultaneously expressing 'seething' outrage over a police shooting in Minneapolis, framing it as a moment of moral reckoning for the industry. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd—also in Minneapolis—many of these same tech companies
issued statements supporting racial justice while simultaneously developing and selling surveillance technologies (e.g., facial recognition, predictive policing) to law enforcement agencies, directly contributing to the carceral state they claimed to oppose. This isn't newfound outrage; it's a cyclical, performative response. Double Standard: These same tech leaders remain largely silent or issue
milquetoast statements on systemic human rights abuses enabled by their own platforms in places like India, where Modi's government uses surveillance tech and social media blackouts to target minorities, or in the Philippines, where Marcos Jr. utilizes online disinformation tactics while acquiring new US military bases. Their 'moral compass' only seems to point westward, or where political
calculus demands. Follow the Money: The very 'tech chiefs' wooing Trump received substantial tax cuts under his previous administration and stand to gain immensely from deregulation. Their 'outrage' regarding the Minneapolis shooting is a carefully calculated PR move designed to maintain a veneer of social conscience while securing favorable political and economic policies. Campaign donations from