[seneca]

> "Tech isn't political" is itself a political stance. (And a hard to support one, IMO.)

Funny how the only people who say this are the people who want to drag politics into everything. Tech is no more inherently political than, say, electrical engineering. That is to say, not at all without tortured logic that could be applied to almost anything.

[ceejayoz]

You don't think the Free Software / Open Source movement many of us owe our careers to was a political one?

[seneca]

I do! Just like a movement to reform electrical engineering would be.

That does nothing to make the wider industry inherently political. It also is a much narrower sphere of politics, in that it is about reforming how software is made and thought of, which is relevant to the industry itself in a way that broad social issues are not.