“First of all, how is a site named “techdirt” always hitting the nail on the head with political commentary?”

One of my favourite things I’ve read this year was Mike Masnick’s “Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)” . Even before things went to shit in the US, so much of tech journalism was trash because it refused to acknowledge that it doesn’t make sense to talk about technology as if it somehow separate from society. The article I linked shows that Techdirt (or at the very least, Masnick) understands this.

You’re right though, that it is gross how ostensibly politics journalism so often fails to make any meaningful political commentary. I appreciate techdirt, but I wish that we had more places doing political commentary like this.