The companies are far left and the consoooooomer types who buy their weight in electronics yearly (no small feat given their girth) and hang out on these sites to jerk off to video card specs are far left. With devs you have a decent chance of running into a libertarian or a populist especially among the older guard, they just know to keep their heads down. A lot of devs remember the old internet, it's where they honed their skills. A lot of devs have seen up close and personal how google and FB work, how the data is mined, they have been talking around the water cooler for years about this stuff and where it might go. They have seen how these companies are constantly trying to make them cheaper and more expendable... Winston was a censor but he might as well have been a dev, both must be painfully aware of the machine and it's mechanisms to do their jobs and both are powerless to stop it. You are right though all the sites have been ruined, github is pozzed, reddit should be nuked from orbit, open source projects have their own middle management PC fuckheads and politics (why would I do it for free like a goddamn janny if you have sucked all the fun out you assholes!?). Even Linus just got tired and gave in. Stallman was right. I've just ghosted the whole thing, it's a paycheck at this point, if I could feed muh huwhyte children another way I would.