from Patrick McKenzie | by Patrick McKenzie

Sometimes the worry that a well-resourced actor with unitary control and a position of substantial social influence is out to get you is not a conspiracy theory and is simply a policy statement. t.co/pjdPLOr3PM

(Trying to answer the question “Did all of tech PR realize this?” without phrasing it as “No, we were hired because we were illiterate, extremely bad at reading social signals, and could not find reporters to talk to off-the-record, those being very useful traits in PR people.”)