There is no such thing as an apolitical stance. It doesn't exist. Banish the very concept from your mind. That is what I, and a lot of the people who have been

There is no such thing as an apolitical stance. It doesn't exist. Banish the very concept from your mind. That is what I, and a lot of the people who have been complaining about the politics of SV, have been saying for some time now. Typically, tech's stance is something like "socially conscious technolibertarianism". That's not inherently bad-- it's a philosophy with pros and cons like any other-- but it is a definite stance. You might be perceiving it as apolitical for one of two reasons: 1. because it aligns so closely with your view of how the world "should be" that it seems natural and obvious 2. because it doesn't map easily onto the usual Democrat/Republican camps of American politics, thus allowing it to avoid closely identifying with one of those parties and thus seem apolitical So I don't think this is a shame - it's more that tech is now being more honest and open about what they were doing anyway.