"Travel in Democratic Party Circles but Oppose Unions, Hate-Speech Codes, or Expanded Income Redistribution"

"When tech leaders prophesy a utopia of connectedness and freely flowing information, they do so as much out of self-interest as belief. Rather than a decentralized, democratic public square, the internet has given us a surveillance state monopolized by a few big players. That may puzzle technological determinists, who saw in networked communications the promise of a digital agora. But strip away the trappings of Google's legendary origins or Atari's madcap office culture, and you have familiar stories of employers versus employees, the maximization of profit, and the pursuit of power. In that way, at least, these tech companies are like so many of the rest."

Jacob Silverman at The New Republic reads Leslie Berlin's Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age and Noam Cohen's The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball.