"The general attitude in Silicon Valley about the ability of government to get things done is that, well, it doesn't have the ability to get things done. Ironically, the slow drift towards an evisceration of internet freedom by internet service providers (ISPs) and their lobbyists -- a drift that most of Silicon Valley is diametrically opposed to -- has been significantly enabled by that prevailing dismissive attitude.
It's not hard to understand why, as a general rule, Silicon Valley would harbor many folks skeptical of Washington. In the web space, steam-rolling builders shape the world in their image (or at least, that's the story that gets told). The nobodies of one day build companies that disrupt historic industries the next. The pace of change is so dramatic and addictive, it's hard to be satisfied at the glacial pace of change that characterizes policy debates."onestopgogreen@gmail.com
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