What Anil Dash thinks about Silicon Valley

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Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999, formerly chief executive of Glitch and a board member of the Data & Society Research Institute. His 2012 essay "The Web We Lost" is one of the founding texts of the argument that the open web has been enclosed.

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1. 21 Aug 2026

   Our readingShaming people out of using a harmful technology does not work, because the companies selling it have already priced the stigma into their plans.

   Their wordsIn short, the venture capitalists and CEOs of Silicon Valley have priced the costs of shame into their business plans.

   ↗Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AIanildash.com 2nd of 3 in this piece