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>>tech-h+(OP)
Interesting to see as polarization increases, as it will given the environment, whether a company can break into two along political lines.

Has that happened before in history?

I wouldn't mind a seperate conservative google and a liberal google. Let the quality of the product offered decide which is better.

>>kodz4+je
Hasn't that question already been answered by the fact that the epicenter of tech is in liberal Silicon Valley?

If conservatives could compete, they would have done so already. There are exceptions of course, but statistically, leftists are better at tech.

>>geofft+Ve
idk...their political opinions can deeply effect the product. At Intel or Microsoft for example it doesn't matter as much, what anyone's political views are. Their products can't start riots tomorrow morning.

Now ofcourse the corporate robots managing things are more interested in keeping the factory running than in anything else. So their natural instinct is to deny conservative/liberal fault lines.

But I think it will just increase the fault lines. We have conservative and liberal newspapers. There is a reason they bifurcated.

Search tech these days is really commoditized. Look at Elastic Search sure not as good as Google but it will do the job for most cases. On top of that adding a conservative or liberal layer might actually benefit people. It feels more natural anyway. Now there is a lot of cognitive dissonance. Which is not going to go away.