Thank God for Pope Leo. He’s the leader our world desperately needs | Arwa Mahdawi
TL;DR
Even for nonbelievers, the pope has become a reassuring — and all too rare — voice of moral clarity. Remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? 'Don't be evil' was Google's unofficial motto, and Zuckerberg wrote that Facebook was built to accomplish a social mission. As was obvious to anyone paying attention, much of this was performative — a period that came to a definitive end in 2018 with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Nauti's Take
The interesting tension here: after years of empty 'we'll save the world' promises from Silicon Valley, a credible moral voice looks like a chance to rebuild trust. The catch: moral clarity from the outside is no substitute for the tech industry policing itself, and nostalgia easily romanticizes an era that was never that idealistic.
For anyone building products, ethics is better treated as practice than as marketing.
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