[SpicyLemonZest]

A lot of people have invested a lot of effort in creating the narrative of a techlash, that people are fed up with big tech's abuses and would be glad to see the big companies go. But it's simply not true. Polls of the general public consistently show that Facebook and Google are well-loved.

For example: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16550640/verge-tech-surv...

[dehrmann]

More recent articles:

https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/amidst-techlash-m...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/opinion/tech-backlash.htm...

I read a similar one in the last 6 months tying it to politics. One was that Trump is ironically more tech-friendly than Sanders or Warren (~Nov 2019), despite tech workers generally not supporting Trump. The other oddity was that polls don't really show that there's a techlash, so why are Democratic frontrunners making it a talking point?

[wutbrodo]

For the same reason that Elizabeth Warren says "Latinx" despite a tiny fraction of Latino citizens identifying with the term: many of them are running for what's been described as "President of Twitter", where Twitter is a metonymy for old-economy institutional elites, lashing out pathetically at the democratizing forces weakening their hold on power. I assume the reason politicians do this is partially drinking the Kool-Aid from their bubble, and partly intentional pandering to journalists who are also in that bubble.