I have to think the authors of articles selling the same point are participants in an activist cabal, because they keep pushing this narrative as if it is the d

I have to think the authors of articles selling the same point are participants in an activist cabal, because they keep pushing this narrative as if it is the dominant perspective and has momentum. But it's not the dominant perspective and doesn't have momentum. And except for the outrage machine of Twitter/Vox[Recode]/Atlantic/Gizmodo/etc. trying to stand up a positive feedback loop around this issue, we would probably have moved on. The number of participants in these efforts are so small and unrepresentative, to a point where it is not material and these companies should not change their direction. Based on what I've heard, Microsoft and Amazon have triple-digit participants at best. Google is where this vocal minority is most present, and they're just in the low four-digit range (~3K per this article, out of ~100K employees). There are FAR more employees who either do not share these same views or are OK with the company pursuing its own agenda independent of their personal political views. For example with workers not willing to build image recognition algorithms that assist/augment the capabilities of joystick-drone-operators, I bet there are a much larger number that are totally willing to work on it, and they are signaling that by not participating in the protest even when it is socially/professionally safe to do so. As for the others - they're just not screaming about it due to the intolerance exhibited by far-left progressives at these companies, especially with all the purposeful/malicious leaking. And as a left progressive, I think that sort of behavior must be stopped and not tolerated.