The problem is that employees and journalists have trouble accepting *what* principles the companies hold. Big tech is not lying about this—look at their political giving, their tax avoidance, their senior hires, their boards, their products—but there's a fair amount of denial
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If I sponsored CPAC, evaded taxes, had dinner with Trump, gave Ivanka an Internet freedom award, donated to Mitch McConnell, appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show to defend Alex Jones, and had frequent off-the-record meetings with Republican figures, you would say I'm right-wing.
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You would also say this if I had Peter Thiel on my board, hired a former Bush administration official and the public mouthpiece of Trump's family detention program to run my office of public policy, or operated a massive for-profit video recruitment network for white supremacy
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They also save tons of cash from all of the employees quitting!
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When people say GitHub, why don't they really say Microsoft?
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Because the organizations remain distinct. Similar to talking about Flickr instead of Yahoo (back in the day) or WhatsApp instead of Facebook
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especially github, since 100k isn't like super-amazing
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1) American liberal activists have become lazy and used to remaking the world without explicitly identifying their views as an ideological stance ("if you don't change this conference in this way [implicit: to accord with my politics], you are Harming [Group], therefore change").
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2) This is why they get flummoxed when eg. the top articles on Facebook are almost all right wing. They are trying to apply usually-winning process arguments ("control mis-information", "vet ads", "ban this profile") when the goal is ideological alignment via 'working the refs'.
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