Don’t get me wrong Web Summit is a Silicon Valley love shrine and I have the smallest violin for Paddy Cosgrave for profiting from legitimising surveillance capitalism in Ireland. I’d say maybe this would make him question what else about Big Tech is wrong but something tells me that’s too much to ask for. His mistake was to make an ethical statement in a fundamentally unethical industry/world. I can only assume he won’t make the same mistake twice if he wants to get back into their good graces.