What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting
I&#x27;m a Republican.  Been working in or for valley companies since 1998.  Engineering then business.  The last five years I&#x27;ve felt my views become increasingly marginalized. The left in the valley has become increasingly vocal, from the c-suite down, and I&#x27;ve been reluctant to express my views for fear of retaliation (See Mozilla&#x27;s ex-CEO.)<p>The valley isn&#x27;t a place focused on the innovation and free thinking that gave it a rep as libertarian.  It&#x27;s focused on money and power at an international level and it&#x27;s found the left worldwide as the most amenable to that path.<p>Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Benioff, Tim Cook... These are the narcissistic, self-righteous, power-obsessed business leaders from almost every dystopian novel or movie the last 100 years - and they are creating the very technology to give themselves real, orwellian, big-brother control, hand-in-hand with governments.<p>I fear my future, my children&#x27;s, and their grand-children.