The industry doesn't shy away from politics. It just pretends that it's opinions and practices aren't political, despite their enormous and very deliberate imp

The industry doesn't shy away from politics. It just pretends that it's opinions and practices aren't political, despite their enormous and very deliberate impact on the way society functions and public policy is made. The industry's politics are mostly disguised by claiming it's the objective truth, or "that's just the way things work". You can see examples of it here on HN in pretty much every thread that isn't 100% technical. And even then, like Mitch Kapor said "Architecture is policy". The fact that we don't feel comfortable acknowledging it in a society that has become anti-political doesn't mean it isn't about politics. Hell, attempts to de-politicize such things are in themselves expressions of political ideology.