"The Wan Show" and Tech Politics

There are a lot of really good tech related podcasts on the internet that range from software, hardware, and the politics of it all. There is one podcast that I enjoy to watch every once in a while, called "The Wan Show" featuring Linus Sebastian. His from the quite popular tech based YouTube channel "Linus Tech Tips." I've been watching his podcast and his videos for quite some time now, I even learned how to build my current Gaming PC from watching his videos and streams. One thing that I like about his podcast and similar ones are the talks about "Tech Politics" as I like to call it, I'm sure there is some better name, but that is what I'm going to refer to it as for now.

Tech politics is essentially to me, when any media outlet begins to talk about the politics that revolve around the tech industry and profession. These discussions usually begin with some recent privacy issue or data breach that gets the sharks in the mainstream media hounding after the blood of some company. The problem with this is that most of the mainstream media outlets that begin to report on huge data scandals and breaches don't even know what it is they're really reporting on. This leads to them breaking down everything into super simplified ideas that make the average viewer get the wrong idea about the problem or even more confused. This is why I watch podcast like "The Wan Show" to hear from people that have at least some clue of what they're talking about. Instead of the crooks at Fox and CNN, who use every tech based controversy as a chance for more click bait and hyperboles.

 In the most recent episode of the podcast they talked about the Zuckerberg Facebook data breach, just like every other media outlet, in a very brief segment. I liked that they focused on speaking with the live chat (since this was in fact a live stream) and the fact that they even made a straw poll to see what their viewers opinions were at the time. They also tried to focus on it from more of a tech industry angle rather than make it some sort of right-wing or left-wing political schlock you usually see from mainstream news outlets 24/7.