[Tronno]

> It's hard to understand why people care so much about someone's personal political opinions.

People care because he has power and money, which he uses to shape the world in alignment with those political opinions.

The same is true of anyone else with power - Xi, Putin, Gates, Thiel, Zuck, and the countless others with influence over business and government. A lot of money is spent to analyze and alter their political opinions.

What's hard for me to understand is why this isn't plainly obvious to you.

[nwienert]

We've had decades of absolute liberal control of tech companies but you don't see threads like this every time Google announces something. Some 25% of tech is conservative, it shouldn't be that weird that a few of the billionaires are too.

[unethical_ban]

You've never seen someone question the motives of the leaders of big tech on HN?