For years, the startups of Silicon Valley have screamed disruption while the libertarian boy-kings at the helms shoveled maggot-infested, rancid, addictive software at us. They still scream about disruption as they beg cities for tax breaks. They scream about the evils of regulation as they continue to exclude already marginalized people from their ranks. They babble on about freedom of speech while they protect the rights of bullies to silence the vulnerable. They deny their workers benefits and personal lives. They make their quarterly profits by accepting payments in rubles to insert fake
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