[didibus]

Reading through this piece and all I can think of is how he's just the other side of the same coin. Simply a different color of the same elitism that our world is moving into as money concentrates and starts to meddle more and more with our political spheres while accountability slowly errodes to zero.

[cholantesh]

I found the piece rambling and incoherent, but I don't really see how this follows. This is an individual Jordanian founder who made a political statement. That's not really the same thing as the deep integration between the Israeli state, Zionist organizations, and big tech.

[SpicyLemonZest]

As the article mentions, Saudi Arabia is aiming to build its own deep integration with big tech, which Masad is enthusiastically participating in despite the Saudi government's own human rights issues. (He argues, quite conveniently if true, that the Replit tools he sells to the Saudi government won't be used for any of the bad stuff.)

[simulator5g]

The coin is wealthy people. They're different sides of that coin. Hence why the commenter above is sensing some malice from both sides.

[ArneBab]

Last I checked the Koch Brothers weren’t Israeli. Do read up on them. Oversimplified narratives are bullshit.

[Sammi]

The only difference being that he wants to replace those with himself and his.

[UltraSane]

What does "Zionist" mean to you? I honestly don't understand what it means when Israel has existed as a Jewish state for 76 years and seems likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

[throw310822]

> is how he's just the other side of the same coin.

Yes. And one side of the coin supports and justifies colonialism, apartheid and even genocide; the other side fights against it.

[hersko]

Is it apartheid that a jewish person cannot buy land in Palestinian controlled areas?