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When I began covering Silicon Valley in the 1990s, the for-profit companies I covered loved to portray themselves as these optimistic, can-do, do-gooders who were out to change the world. Coverage from places like the NYT amplified this image. I never bought it, and as a result, I had very tense relations with companies like Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Intel. They went out of their way to make my job harder. Watching how quickly Facebook and and even Apple buckled the minute Orange felon was elected has finally proved my view beyond any reasonable doubt and has confirmed that the burden was well worth it.