I don't see techies wearing political ignorance as a cute badge of honor. When they want to restrict the rights of politicians, they learn about politics.
Do we not have a standardized org structure for the support staff of each politician:
Who is in the following roles as an aide to each congressman?
* Technology Consultant
* Foreign Policy
* Energy
* Agriculture
....
etc.
We should be able to reach out to EACH layer of aides for all of congress and say "To all the congressional technical advisors, as silicon valley reps, this is our stance on issue X"
These aides should then go to each congressman and say "this is what the tech on the street is saying" and inform them of opinion and reality.
No they assume whatever half baked idea they make up recall from reading Ayn Rynd will work in the real world.
take the widely held view that companies should have "all" their rights removed - the debate about personhood.
Do you realy want to end up with a system where any company could be taken over or shut down by political fiat - hint threes a reason Russian companies list in the UK its so they are perceived not to have the political risk.
