This is a side-effect of tech becoming mainstream. Science and business have always been intertwined with politics, and it's silly to pretend they haven't. Tech now is too - from allegations of monopoly against Google to Facebook's ability to change a population's opinion on things.

These are all very worth talking about. Not least because people are going to be talking about them whether we do or not, and the discourse benefits from people with actual technical knowledge contributing towards it.