The ‘Tech Left’ Stirs, But It’s Different This Time: Dave Lee

The sight of the country’s most powerful technology chief executive officers lined up behind the president at an inauguration they helped pay for was a visual declaration that the Silicon Valley effort to resist Donald Trump was dead.

As Trump took office again, gone was the anger that had emerged from Silicon Valley after the 2016 election, political action that brewed with the rank and file and extended to some of its top executives, such as Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, who protested in person against Trump’s 2017 travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

But recent events, most prominently the ...