Steven Crowder versus Vox/Carlos Maza

[Dan Druff]

Google, Facebook, and Twitter engage in a lot of cold, opportunistic, and morally questionable business practices in order to maintain and expand their dominance.

There's various ways executives of these type of companies cope with behaving in such a way:

1) "That's the way business works, I regret nothing. SFO."
-or-
2) "I'll give a shitload of money to charity, and that totally makes up for it."
-or-
3) "I'll support left wing politics in order to show how much I care for the little guy, and will instill this into our corporate culture. That will make up for it."

Silicon Valley engages in #3.

Bill Gates engaged in #2.

[gimmick]

From a Western perspective they are center right, if you're speaking of management/owners.

Right likes to spew silly numbers like 90% of employees donations going to the left. That money buys lip service and keeping up appearances. For anything else it's too random.

Almost all directed lobbying effort goes towards right wing economic policies. That money gets things done. At the top of the list are anti-trust laws, stripping regulations and stopping anyone from looking too close to what needs to be done. All things Orwellian (lifelong socialist btw).

[v12cl]

From a Western perspective they are center right, if you're speaking of management/owners.

Right likes to spew silly numbers like 90% of employees donations going to the left. That money buys lip service and keeping up appearances. For anything else it's too random.

Almost all directed lobbying effort goes towards right wing economic policies. That money gets things done. At the top of the list are anti-trust laws, stripping regulations and stopping anyone from looking too close to what needs to be done. All things Orwellian (lifelong socialist btw).

Obama administration was a revolving door for google and facebook employees.

How many google and facebook employees are in the Trump administration?

I believe there were actually a few to start, but they resigned under pressure from the outrage mob.

There is only one side calling for the other side to be silenced, fired, de-personed, de-platformed, etc. and it's not the modern right.

[gimmick]

From a Western perspective they are center right, if you're speaking of management/owners.

Right likes to spew silly numbers like 90% of employees donations going to the left. That money buys lip service and keeping up appearances. For anything else it's too random.

Almost all directed lobbying effort goes towards right wing economic policies. That money gets things done. At the top of the list are anti-trust laws, stripping regulations and stopping anyone from looking too close to what needs to be done. All things Orwellian (lifelong socialist btw).

Obama administration was a revolving door for google and facebook employees.

How many google and facebook employees are in the Trump administration?

I believe there were actually a few to start, but they resigned under pressure from the outrage mob.

There is only one side calling for the other side to be silenced, fired, de-personed, de-platformed, etc. and it's not the modern right.

Big tech companies do the same as Koch industries when it comes to regulating corporations only from their perspective. For Koch it's environmental regulations, for big tech it's privacy and intellectual property. And obv what comes to actually paying taxes, workers/customers rights, they share the same views.

Big tech is the libertarian dream when it comes to economic side of things.

I don't know what you mean with modern right. Far as i know right still excommunicates for disagreeing with the bible, crushes unions, Trump administration is banning words and trannies are now banned from the military. First things that come to mind. Right does their dirt where they can. It's not in the left leaning universities or left leaning newspapers, so they tend to highlight those.

[blake]

big tech is one of those rare things that animates both sides. breitbart is the biggest voice online against it. every single day, at least half of the articles are railing against it and those stories are usually the leads (like right now).

on the other side, elizabeth warren and other liberal politicians want to see the big tech companies broken up for much of the same reason

[gimmick]

big tech is one of those rare things that animates both sides. breitbart is the biggest voice online against it. every single day, at least half of the articles are railing against it and those stories are usually the leads (like right now).

on the other side, elizabeth warren and other liberal politicians want to see the big tech companies broken up for much of the same reason

Apparently this thing was in the news cycle the last few days. I'm guessing it's filling Wall Streets place now as the villain. A lot of talk, but no change that actually sticks.

Slightly older article about above the table lobbying...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technolo...bying-congress

...antitrust laws aren't mentioned there. but before Microsofts 1998 case tech companies lobbying wasn't a thing. The last major cases against Google were also about that. They took a 9b hit from EU, but nothing from US. What they were fined for in EU, they are still doing in US.

[Dan Druff]

It actually makes sense why Big Tech is becoming hated by both sides.

The right hates them for their left wing political biases which carry over into their policies regarding content.

The left hates them because of their various abuses of privacy and personal information.

This is one of those rare cases where both sides are correct.