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    One possibility is that the risk-taking founders–not necessarily right-of-center but at least not SJW wussies and nincompoops–that created these Big Tech companies left. They retired, or died off, or decided to dabble in space flight or flying cars or something, so professional managers got hired to run things:

    Apple: Jobs->Cook / Microsoft: Gates->Nadella / Google: Page/Brin->Pichai / YouTube: Chen/Hurley->Wojcicki

    Those professional CEOs have less cultural resistance to the SJWs who spend their time at work Agitating For The Next Cultural Revolution, where apparently white men like the founders are irredeemable. In fact, the professional CEOs might intentionally hire more SJWs so the professional CEO can be lauded for diversity goodness by SJW #mediajackals. See this article quoting a whistleblower:

    “Google is run like a religious cult. Conform and carry out the rituals, and you’ll be rewarded and praised; ask any uncomfortable questions or offend the wrong people, and the threats and public shaming will be swift and ruthless. The religion in this case is a kind of intersectional feminism, its central tenets are Diversity and Inclusion, its demonic enemy is Bias, and its purifying rituals include humiliating forms of “training” that resemble Maoist struggle sessions.”

    On the other hand Twitter and Facebook are run by their founders or co-founders, so this theory may not be enough to explain what’s really going on.

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      Excerpts:

      Tragically, the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Silicon Valley has gone wussy on us—wait, can I even say “wussy” anymore? The New York Times suggests tech workers are all experiencing “existential dread” and in need of therapy. Bad leadership is to blame.

      Everyone is caving in like an overcooked soufflé. Mr. Zuckerberg says the era of self-regulation is over. Microsoft President Brad Smith says the tech sector should embrace regulation. Apple’s Tim Cook, who practically invented the global supply chain, met with President Trump to beg him to lift tariffs—from Apple, but not everyone else.

      What happened? Silicon Valley suffers from a classic case of Stockholm syndrome: Its leaders have developed sympathy for their government and social-justice captors. Facebook and Uber spent millions on cringeworthy TV commercials apologizing for misdeeds. Facebook ought to update its iconic signs to read, “Move fast and break things—and then apologize profusely.”