‘The Social Dilemma’ Offers Fake Solutions to Real Problems

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself

BY John Menick in Opinion | 29 OCT 20

A new subgenre of documentary is emerging, one in which young, white, semi-retired tech workers voice their regrets for having built the digital platforms that rule our lives. In well-rehearsed paragraphs, our heroes tell similar stories. First, they dropped out of a top-tier university, usually Stanford, overeducated in computer science and undereducated in everything else. They were then hired by one of the tech companies belonging to the Pynchonian acronym, FAANG: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google. While there, they worked on new features for time-wasting apps, such as the Like Button or photo tagging.

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