| − | '''Silicon Valley''' is in northern [[California]] between [[San Francisco]] and [[San Jose]] on the west side of the Bay. The area is home to many high-tech companies, including [[Hewlett Packard]], [[Intel]], [[Adobe]], [[Yahoo]], [[Google]], [[Apple]], [[Cisco]], [[Oracle]], and [[AMD]]. | + | '''Silicon Valley''' is in northern [[California]] from [[San Francisco]] to [[San Jose]], primarily on the western side of the Bay. The area is home to many high-tech companies, including [[Hewlett Packard]], [[Intel]], [[Adobe]], [[Yahoo]], [[Google]], [[Apple]], [[Twitter]], [[Cisco]], [[Oracle]], and [[AMD]]. |
| | It has replaced [[Hollywood]] as the primary funding source of [[liberal]] politics, including [[censorship]] of [[conservatives]]. | | It has replaced [[Hollywood]] as the primary funding source of [[liberal]] politics, including [[censorship]] of [[conservatives]]. |
| − | Silicon Valley is also a two-tiered society of the haves and the have-nots. It relies extensively on work visas to exploit foreign labor, thereby denying engineering opportunities to Americans. | + | Silicon Valley is also a two-tiered society of the haves and the have-nots. It has a large homeless population, and poor people living in rundown trailers camp out along one side of [{Stanford University]], not far from the headquarters of [[Google]]. Silicon Valley companies rely extensively on work visas to exploit foreign labor, thereby denying engineering opportunities to Americans. |
| | Silicon Valley is a valley in the geographic sense. The proper name for the valley in which much of Silicon "Valley" resides is the Santa Clara Valley. | | Silicon Valley is a valley in the geographic sense. The proper name for the valley in which much of Silicon "Valley" resides is the Santa Clara Valley. |