Comment by jerf

I've been waiting for the inevitable rhetorical attack that Silicon Valley's slowly-but-surely increasing crackdown on everything that happens to offend SV is itself a form of cultural imperialism. Without endorsing or rejecting that argument myself, I think it's inevitable that we're going to start hearing it soon. As the aspirations of SV grow ever more global more conflict of this sort is inevitable. By that I mean that I don't even blame SV culture itself necessarily, because the details of what SV culture is doesn't matter, there is no culture that could run a centralized global social network without these sorts of problems becoming ever-larger, the only difference is where the flash points would be.