Ben Smith for BuzzFeed:

The new spotlight on [tech] companies doesn’t come out of nowhere. They sit, substantively, at the heart of the biggest and most pressing issues facing the United States, and often stand on the less popular side of those: automation and inequality, trust in public life, privacy and security. They make the case that growth and transformation are public goods — but the public may not agree.

On the one hand, the politics looming over tech companies has been obvious for a while. On the other hand, no one believed me or maybe no one cared when I would point it out.