Is "Big Tech" leaning on the progressive or conservative side?

The progressive-leaning Bay Area is the heart of big tech, but voters now believe the industry's leaders are largely conservative.

We're joined live on the KCBS Ring Central Newsline by KCBS insider Phil Matier.

Phil, good morning.

What is pointing voters to believe that, that big tech has gone more conservative?

It's simple.

They're eyes.

They're exactly what they're seeing.

You know, when tech started in the Bay Area, it was considered as sort of a libertine, liberal, socially conscious, new type of economy and new type of products out there.

Elon Musk was being praised for revolutionizing the electrical vehicle market and getting those cars on the road and sort of kicking off the whole EV boom.

Zuckerberg was leading the nation in sort of this is a new way to communicate and it's open to everybody.

We had Twitter, we had it all.

And now, you know, it's sort of reversed.

What happened is that the tech titans do what tech titans do and other titans do, whether they've been railroad barons or whatever.

They go with the winner.

And when Democrats were in the White House winning, they were with them.

And when MAGA came in, they've really gone big with Donald Trump.

So while locally, you know, they still have their liberal front when it comes to putting out money and putting out support.

They've become increasingly on the side of Trump, not necessarily Republicans, but on the guy at the top that can sort of dictate the regulations that govern their business.

Have you I mean, you've been watching this game for a long time around here.

Have you seen the needle moved on this from left to right?

It's always been a back and forth.

I got to tell you, Steve, when tech first arrived in San Francisco, we were still recovering from the dot-com boom, and we were looking for any kind of jobs we could get.

And it exploded.

It just exploded.

Just look at the skyline.