Old-line liberals are viscerally hostile to anything networked or distributed, and can't conceive of any approach to reform that involves decentralized self-governance rather than a mid-20th century industrial dinosaur model (see Frank, Thomas).
Another of that ilk is Doug Henwood, who once pigeonholed free and open-source software into the same box as "entrepreneurship" hustlers like Gingrich and Kemp.
Ironic that so many liberals who claim to hate big tech are also copyright maximalists, and support the central bulwark of big tech power.
It's extra frustrating because such an ignorant approach (e.g. re: FOSS) doesn't even have good grounding in serious liberal theory, it's just vibes + nostalgia for cold war dinosaurs.
