Posted on 09/28/2017 5:02:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
When left and right finally agree on something, watch out: The unthinkable becomes normal.
So it is with changing attitudes toward Silicon Valley.
For the last two decades, Apple, Google, Amazon and other West Coast tech corporations have been untouchable icons. They piled up astronomical profits while hypnotizing both left-wing and right-wing politicians.
Conservative administrations praised them as modern versions of 19th-century risk-takers such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Bill Gates, the late Steve Jobs and other tech giants were seen as supposedly creating national wealth in an unregulated, laissez-faire landscape that they had invented from nothing.
At a time when American companies were increasingly unable to compete in the rough-and-tumble world arena, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook bulldozed their international competition. Indeed, they turned high-tech and social media into American brands.
The left was even more enthralled. It dropped its customary regulatory zeal, despite Silicon Valley's monopolizing, outsourcing, offshoring, censoring, and destroying of startup competition. After all, Big Tech was left-wing and generous. High-tech interests gave hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing candidates, think tanks and causes.
Companies such as Facebook and Google were able to warp their own social media protocols and Internet searches to insidiously favor progressive agendas and messaging.
If the left feared that the tech billionaires were becoming robber barons, they also delighted in the fact that they were at least left-wing robber barons.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Amazon is a horizontally integrated tax avoidance scheme.
If i can get over Zuck’s Big Beautiful Wall at his mansion in Kauai, do i get to stay forever and live off of him?
Queen Nancy Pelosi knows who butters her toast.
Zuck is a deep state aparatchik ,, The CIA paid $600million for web services from Amazon that Zuck used to buy the WaPo and the Hawaii estate with ,, they own him.. So to answer your question .. of course you can stay forever ,, with generous stipends if yo get over the wall.
Paradise Lost
Are Zuck and Bezos two bodies but one scheme.
I always hated seeing these guys standing in front of large screens. Like it was their egos or something : )
I don’t think this writer has EVER been to Silicon Valley.
It has gone from tolerating conservatives to actively driving them out of the their companies.
The few who are left, stay there by staying quiet and working hard.
Are Zuck and Bezos two bodies but one scheme.
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I get those slime buckets mixed up sometimes... they’re all the same.
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