Silicon Valley’s year in hell: Harassment, hacks, and hate speech spark global backlash

ANALYSIS: While it’s hard to measure such things precisely, a pretty good argument can be made that 2017 is Silicon Valley’s crappiest year on record. And the global tech hub has only itself to blame.
One could point to the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 — which tanked the U.S. economy for several years — as another frontrunner for this title. But even that turned out to be only a temporary blip on the Yellow Brick Road of tech euphoria.
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