U.S. election season is in full swing, and “with a blizzard of tweets, blog posts, public comments, and podcasts, the tech industry’s most powerful business leaders are delivering a running commentary on this year’s presidential campaign cycle that’s hard to tune out,” Alexei Oreskovic writes in Fortune magazine this month.
If it’s hard for regular voters to tune it out, it’s perhaps even harder for politicians themselves to ignore when, as Oreskovic (Fortune’s tech editor) writes, “enormous political contributions from Silicon Valley have meant that Washington is increasingly beholden to these outspoken techies.”
