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personalvivi.bsky.social
That this comes at a time where the public as a whole has become far more cynical regarding the Tech industry - the so-called "techlash" - has only intensified their rage and frustration.

They were SUPPOSED to be immortal god-kings! Why is this happening?!
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
etherealspirits.bsky.social
"Techlash", I like it.

I don't think people dislike tech. They just shouldn't have to subsidize it, be it electricity, water, or money benefits. Along with the increase risk from pollution and fire hazards.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
keepitbluedems.bsky.social
The Real Techlash Is Coming
open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
The Real Techlash Is Coming
Anger at the tech companies is growing, and it could become a genuine political movement.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
novathemachine.bsky.social
Techlash was just the beta version.
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
paulwaldman.bsky.social
In 2018 people started talking about a "techlash" against Silicon Valley. The word kind of disappeared, but the anger is only increasing, especially now with AI being shoved down everyone's throats.

This could become a real political movement.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-real-t...
The Real Techlash Is Coming
Anger at the tech companies is growing, and it could become a genuine political movement.
paulwaldman.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
sergechorny.bsky.social
The Real Techlash Is Coming
open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
The Real Techlash Is Coming
Anger at the tech companies is growing, and it could become a genuine political movement.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
phasebinary.bsky.social
i used to tell people I was such a social outcast, i was bullied in COMPUTER CAMP. of all places.

in the 2010s I started having to explain to people that computer camp wasn't for the cool kids. everyone suddenly decided that tech was cool.

then the techlash etc.
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
susankayequinn.bsky.social
really good article from heatmap

FINALLY seeing the techlash against AI
(I've been fighting this from the jump)

I think the tech industry pissed people off endlessly, shoved AI into everything, and then inadvertently gave people a physical thing they could focus their anger on.
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11d
Data center fights are already activating so many young people on the left.

One activist fighting data centers in Texas told me he started getting involved in the opposition because he didn’t have “the clout” to stop “the genocide” in Gaza, but he could maybe stop the data centers… @heatmap.news
The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics
Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against AI development.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ianwilley.bsky.social
“And I really think this computer thing is getting out of hand
And I think this tech pilot isn't going to land”

🖥️ 📉 💥

#Techlash
#Boomerslop
#FallFriday

youtu.be/Hx0TxCpfYZs?...
Auto Tech Pilot (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
jael.bsky.social
my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics…

…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.

read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!
The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics
Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against rampant AI development.
heatmap.news
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
botsocialista.ursal.zone.ap.brid.gy
What the AI Safety Debate Can Learn from the Techlash
- bstecpol
https://techpolicy.press/what-the-ai-safety-debate-can-learn-from-the-techlash
What the AI Safety Debate Can Learn from the Techlash | TechPolicy.Press
Many AI safety challenges closely parallel problems the trust and safety community spent two decades learning to address, Antonina Vikhrest writes.
www.techpolicy.press
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
novathemachine.bsky.social
Scrolling past this gave me techlash vertigo.
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
notaboomer.bsky.social
Techlash
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
frontiertony.bsky.social
This essay is one of the first I’ve seen to grapple with the intersection of the burgeoning “techlash” with “abundance” but gets the political valence backwards. brinklindsey.substack.com/p/abundance-...
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
archivewhisperer.bsky.social
clip to encourage click thru's:

highly recommended read and Max Read is a great account to follow. see alt text
a summary of arguments of what "Techlash" is and proponents of Techlash are a modern "moral temperance" movement. This passage explains how one argument frames why AI manipulated platforms should be exempt from section 230 and thus be liable for more accountability actions. In the conclusion Read argues that all these different frames for proposed solutions to "Big AI" should be carefully considered in order to produce effective outcomes. By drawing from history of the 19th century Temperance movement, he is suggesting that policy propsals from the Techlash movement might introduce unintended harms.
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
maxread.info
on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
This burgeoning movement seeks to root criticism of (and response to) Big Tech in ideas of health (public, social, intellectual, and spiritual) and morality rather than size and power, positioning the rise of social media and the platform giants as something between a public-health scare and a spiritual threat, rather than (solely) a problem of political economy or market design. I see versions of this school of thought not just in speeches and op-eds from Auchincloss and Cox or blog posts from Thompson, but in Chris Hayes’ book The Siren’s Call and in the inescapable work of Jonathan Haidt. (You might broadly think of Hayes and Haidt as representing “left” and “right” tendencies of the broader movement.) Notably, all of the above-mentioned have found platforms on Klein’s podcast. Back in a January interview with Hayes, Klein offered up a kind of political vision or prediction rooted in this tendency: Thompson dubs this loose movement, or at least the version touted by Auchincloss, “touch-grass populism,” but I think this is wrong: The framework in question is distinctly not “populist” (unlike, say, the neo-Brandeisian “new antitrust” movement that has been a major focus of the “techlash” to date) so much as progressive in the original sense, a reform ideology rooted in middle-class concerns for general social welfare in the wake of sweeping technological change. At its broadest you could maybe call this budding program of restriction, restraint, and regulation “Platform Temperance.” But that name describes a broad tent, and like the progressive movements that emerged in the late 19th century, it can produce both grounded liberal-technocratic visions, and paternalistic, pseudoscientific, and ultimately harmful moral panics.
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
alecmuffett.bsky.social
French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119022
#TechLash #france
French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO
Basically all European tech regulation is envy & avarice, not user protection: France’s National Assembly voted Tuesday night in favor of hiking a digital service tax on tech companies includin…
alecmuffett.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
the-ai-news.bsky.social
Emma Thompson's had ENOUGH of AI! 🤬 "Will you f--k off?!" she reportedly yelled. Is she right to be furious, or is this just Luddite rage?

#AI #EmmaThompson #Techlash #LateShow
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
picklefactory.org
I have never seen him as an "AI" commentator–his original newsletter stuff was mostly about how RTO efforts were not backed up by productivity data, and sensible anti-crypto / enshittification / techlash stuff. IMO it's just the same stuff he was doing and then in 2023 "AI" became the big rot vector
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
mithos343.bsky.social
This is what he's been saying for years. Man. Didn't Jain do some stupid "techlash" signaling here too
October 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
keytryer.net
Claim: There will be a massive right-wing techlash that'll intensify in the next couple of years and tech CEOs betting on right wingers will end up looking like fools
October 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“A Pew Research study found roughly one-third of Americans get their news from Facebook.”

Roughly a third of population are hard core MAGA. Coincidence?

— Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age? by Tom Wheeler, Tim H. Dixon
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Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
Quote shared via Kindle: "A Pew Research study found roughly one-third of Americans get their news from Facebook."
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October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
winbuzzer.com
Global Leaders, AI Pioneers Demand Superintelligence Ban, Citing Existential Risk

#AI #Superintelligence #AIRegulation #AISafety #Techlash #ExistentialRisk #FutureofLife #AIEthics #TechPolicy #OpenAI #Meta #GeoffreyHinton #SteveWozniak

winbuzzer.com/2025/10/22/g...
Global Leaders, AI Pioneers Demand Superintelligence Ban, Citing Existential Risk - WinBuzzer
Over 800 global leaders, tech pioneers, and public figures have signed a statement demanding a ban on superintelligence development, citing existential risks.
winbuzzer.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
presenting my first first-author paper (!), "Beyond Big Tech: Advocacy Technologists within Mission-Driven Civil Society Organizations" at #CSCW2025 in Bergen today! my firstborn child out is in the world -- and won an impact award 🥲🏆 (!!!)

check it out: laurenmarietta.github.io/beyond-big-tech
one-page infographic PDF conveying the main takeaways from the paper, including a summary, the research questions, background, methods, results, and implications. The summary reads, "A new kind of tech worker is contributing materially to mission-driven projects from within nonprofit advocacy groups. These interdisciplinary professionals reflect shifting values and new orientations of power around tech and policy." Questions include: "(1) who are the tech experts working inside mission-driven nonprofits? (2) how do they operate in their roles? (3) what might they tell us about the shifting relationship between tech and advocacy?" Background reads "Over the past two decades, civil society, government, and academic work across domains has seen new tech initiatives - including non- computational domains such as policy. Mean-while, the techlash soured Big Tech’s public image and interest in public interest tech has grown." Methods include: "23 semi-structured video interviews, Mar-Oct 2024; recruited individuals who (1) worked for an advocacy organization and (2) had tech skills or expertise used in service of advocacy; prioritized domains which have historically not been data- or tech-oriented; reflexive thematic analysis" implications include: "(1) advocacy technologists are occupying a critical niche in advocacy work as boundary-crossers & knowledge brokers; (2) these workers reject Big Tech’s status quo as part of a broader movement (inc. labor organizing); (3) rarity of cross-disciplinary training; professional associations or ad hoc groups can offer mentors & community; (4) computational strategies bolster advocacy; critical eyes check the tech sector and its effects on society; (5) importance of studying and supporting tech workers beyond the private sector" opening slide for a conference presentation at CSCW. Includes the title, "beyond big tech: advocacy technologists in mission-driven civil society organizations," the presenter name, lauren m. chambers, and the logo for the UC Berkeley School of Information
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
digifox.binaryden.net
I mean there is definitely some baseless techlash but there's a lot that uh, isn't.
October 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM