Marc Andreessen Deletes Post Criticizing the Pope After Backlash

Marc Andreessen, pivotal co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, appears to have run afoul of the internet’s tech crowd after criticizing the Pope over the weekend.

Andreessen, a self-avowed “techno-optimist,” has made it very clear that he doesn’t really believe in any sort of regulatory or ethical guardrails for technological development (he has characterized such efforts as being part of a “mass demoralization campaign” against tech that is based on…