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Jun 07, 2015pl8 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
It was written before Snowden, and the blog associated with it appears to be down, but its still very good. Its also a breathe of fresh air to read some criticism of the tech private sector for once (its interesting that libraries tend to toot their own horn about supposedly standing up to government agencies but they seem to be silent about the privatization of the libraries themselves by, ya know, cool and hip companies like google and its specific mindset). Tech people like googlers or hackers have become sacred cows and Vaidhyanathan accurately writes about how biased and self serving (and creepy) their way of doing things are. They need a good spanking. With all the criticism of the government (much of it merited), its interesting how two-faced, hypocritical companies like google can divert blame or accountability by tricking people into believing that blindly trusting the hip, fresh private sector that "gets it" is somehow revolutionary (I honestly have no idea what people mean by that word anymore) and should replace publically funded institutions. Thanks hacker and coder cult members, you really, really shouldn't have.