It never was. Silicon Valley was/is filled with smart people who knew how to get on top. They realized that using ideals to sell their cold hard reality was a

It never was. Silicon Valley was/is filled with smart people who knew how to get on top. They realized that using ideals to sell their cold hard reality was a great way to get useful minions to put their hearts and souls into projects. The useful minions came and helped, and are now SHOCKED that the power hungry people they supported would do things related to power. Most people can't even accept the open fact that the intelligence community helped fund many of these projects (see In-Q-Tel and others) Now everyone is 'shocked' at them gathering data and sending it off to intelligence organizations. They could have 'never seen this coming'and 'how oh how did this happen?' - The only way those questions are asked is through massive indoctrination and double think.