> One of my biggest gripes with the tech critique of Rushkoff (and Doctorow for that matter) is the insistence of bringing in their leftist politics into it.
Really, because....
> The biggest problems today of tech is that the big corporations are doing regulatory capture and rent-seeking
That is a left wing analysis. These days. I understand that there is a dry economic analysis, usually associated with the right, that criticises regulatory capture and rent-seeking, but it is not part of the current, dominant, right wing analysis.
These days being anti "regulatory capture and rent-seeking" is a left wing position. The position Doctorow takes