Andreessen told Fridman. “It’s much healthier to live in a society in which people are literally not scared of what they’re saying.”
There has not been anything more frustrating than elites and mainstream academics and politicians who believe that theyre the oppressed ones and there’s a conspiracy to shutting them up.
In case you have any doubts who is behind the fascism in the US:
“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,” he said. “By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end — so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”
Stop wasting your time on wedge issues and start trying to help spread the word: The oligarchs are the true enemie of Democracy. They empower all the others. We must take away the power from the oligarchs or we will lose our democracy.
Wow, so Signal is secure, huh?
Doubtful. Google owns the signing keys specifically so they can recompile for individual downloads.
maybe members of these conspiracies should be rounded up and shot?
@kevinsbacon@lemmy.today, can you change the title to something like “TIL about the 300 member signal groups that …”
Chatham House is an unrelated think tank with a completely separate history, and your post makes it sound like they’re behind this. If I understand it correctly, the tech bros named their signal group “Chatham House” because that’s what they wanted it to resemble.
This particular group chat is only notable because the author accidentally got added to it.
And it was just another day in Chatham House, a giant and raucous Signal group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right.
But their influence flows through X, Substack, and podcasts, and constitutes a kind of dark matter of American politics and media. The group chats aren’t always primarily a political space, but they are the single most important place in which a stunning realignment toward Donald Trump was shaped and negotiated, and an alliance between Silicon Valley and the new right formed. The group chats are “the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion,” wrote one of their key organizers, Sriram Krishnan, a former partner in the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (typically styled a16z) who is now the White House senior policy adviser for AI.
Of course, these are hardly the only power group chats. Anti-Trump liberals are now coordinating their responses on Signal. There are group chats for Black political elites and morning show producers. A vast and influential parallel set of tech conversations take place on WhatsApp. There’s a big China-friendly group over on WeChat. Elite podcasters have one.
The article is interesting and worth reading, thanks for sharing it
The original Chatham House, for those unfamiliar.
People having conversations isn’t exactly new, but it’s ironic that these people start with the concept of an open discussion forum and then start accusing others of TDS and spin up a new group.
Jeez, can I get a mistaken invite?
“Money pleeeeeease” “Who dis?”
Just propose some sort of hot new survelliance state app you want to develop, and get tens of millions of billionaire pocket change.
Is it related to the Royal Institute of International Affairs which is where briefing under “Chatham House Rules” comes from?
No, I think that was the name of one chat that the author touched on, likely named that way in reference to the rule
