{"id":187323,"date":"2013-04-06T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/06\/high-tech-eutopianism-fail\/"},"modified":"2013-04-06T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:32:00","slug":"high-tech-eutopianism-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/06\/high-tech-eutopianism-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"High Tech Eutopianism Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/articles\/32719\/michael-arrington-rape-allegations-are-wake-up-call-for-silicon-valley?fb_action_ids=10151830918684746\">Silicon Valley icon Michael Arrington&#8217;s behavior towards woman has been ignored and covered up for years<\/a> puts the lie to the idea that somehow the culture of high tech will in and of itself to create a better world and a better workplace:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Everyone knows Silicon Valley is a boys\u2019 club. The needs of women are often ignored when it comes to business, but the story developing around the alleged rape and brutalization of a girlfriend by a Silicon Valley hotshot indicates that lack of effort carries into the personal realm as well.  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Michael Arrington, tech magnate and founder of TechCrunch, has long been known for temper tantrums. His former girlfriend, Jenn Allen \u2014 the CEO and founder of the start-up RTist.com \u2014 recently took to Facebook to accuse him of some nasty stuff. Allegedly, he was constantly violent, raped her and another woman, and threatened to \u201cmurder\u201d her if she told a soul.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">That is disturbing, yes. But what is most disturbing is that many people in Silicon Valley had heard about his alleged violent tendencies towards women for years and never said anything, fearing repercussions by the constantly angry man who controlled so much in the land of tech.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Arrington\u2019s legendary temper and deep connections in Silicon Valley and the most powerful media outlets earned him the ability to do whatever he pleased with no fear of being confronted. While this apparent bully might have been stopped years ago, bystanders preferred their comfortable lives in Silicon Valley while others suffered terribly at Arrington\u2019s hand.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between the Silicon Valley and any other industry is simply the technology they use.<\/p>\n<p>The underlying human aspects are the same as in any other industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the Silicon Valley icon Michael Arrington&#8217;s behavior towards woman has been ignored and covered up for years puts the lie to the idea that somehow the culture of high tech will in and of itself to create a better world and a better workplace: Everyone knows Silicon Valley is a boys\u2019 club. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1092,975,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-culture","category-employment","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}