Thread · 2 tweets · 20 Aug 2020

"I'm going to talk about governance" is how every discussion of Big Tech should kick off. Scaling up tech is a set of mostly boring problems; scaling up ethics is where the smart technologist's at.

That quote is from this excellent article about @MarietjeSchaake. Big Tech is an existential threat to democracy, and judging from the sheer level of denial those who work there are in, change can only come from thinkers on the outside. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…