How in the HELL did the left become so computer illiterate?

A Redditor by the name of /u/Unfilter41 posted this comment about this video:

The Hated One is one of the few non-far-right alt tech people on YouTube.
Un-feeding Google is a good idea.

Neal Stephenson caricature
DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I’m still scratching my head about how the left managed to get so computer illiterate. Or did it happen the other way around by all the programmer types getting infected by some kind of malevolent Snow Crash type pathogen? If so, how did I escape? Maybe it’s because I’m not the programmer I think I am. But maybe, just maybe, I’m truly gifted at code and my lack of career progress is 100% due to the fact that I hate monetization of data with the heat of a thousand suns, and 0% for lack of coding skills. I will probably never know.

It puzzles me to no end. More and more with each passing day it seems like everyone who takes privacy or independent computer usage even half seriously is part of some kind of alt right cult. It leads me to wonder whether I’m on the wrong side of some issues. Maybe proprietary treatment of data and systems actually serves the cause of social justice (or the public domain as I understand it is hostile to that cause) and my brain is just too “stem-oriented” to see the obvious. I wish someone could explain it to me in terms I can understand.

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