Hacker News with Generative AI: Authoritarianism

Cory Doctorow: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline (pluralistic.net)
Silicon Valley's "authoritarian turn" is hard to miss: tech bosses have come out for autocrats like Trump, Orban, Milei, Bolsonaro, et al, and want to turn San Francisco into a militia-patrolled apartheid state operated for the benefit of tech bros:

Politics, Technology, Authoritarianism, Silicon Valley

11 points by moritzruth 5 days ago | 2 comments

Against 'Free Market Authoritarianism' (isonomiaquarterly.com)
Can a ‘free market’ version of authoritarianism — or ‘liberal authoritarianism’ for those outside the U.S. context and discourse — exist and serve as a viable alternative system to liberal democracy?

Politics, Authoritarianism, Economics, Liberal Democracy

15 points by brandonlc 45 days ago | 10 comments

On Tyranny – Lessons from the Twentieth Century (archive.org)
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.

History, Fascism, Politics, Authoritarianism

14 points by gooseus 72 days ago | 0 comments

The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It (scottsantens.com)
It takes all kinds. Humanity would have never made it this far without a multitude of people with a wide diversity of personality types and preferences. It is our individual differences wherein lies our strength as a society, but my belief in the truth of that statement is also in polar opposition to those who disagree with individuality and diversity and prefer oneness and sameness.

Politics, Authoritarianism, Social Commentary

41 points by 2noame 73 days ago | 82 comments

It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary (vox.com)
A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in Europe — and there are warning signs for America.