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This will be interesting to witness for the next few weeks.
1 posted on 01/13/2021 3:58:08 PM PST by devane617
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We shall see.


2 posted on 01/13/2021 3:59:24 PM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quiality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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their not there...but I know it’s coming.


3 posted on 01/13/2021 3:59:47 PM PST by devane617 ('It's Only Donuts Ma'am')
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They don’t care.


4 posted on 01/13/2021 4:01:23 PM PST by Noumenon (As long as you have a rifle, you still have a vote. (KTF))
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Big-Tech has managed to upset at least 75 million people and users and this seems to me to be a very bad spot to be in.

If they walk it back they will upset a different 75 million people. They're idiots that painted themselves into a corner.

6 posted on 01/13/2021 4:02:13 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Idaho internet provider to block Facebook, Twitter from Wi-Fi service over Trump ban

https://www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article248433155.html


7 posted on 01/13/2021 4:02:26 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Big Tech will gladly fall on their sword for Socialism and to punish Trump.

The question is will their stock holders.

Big Tech stock holders will be baling out of Apple, Google and Twitter.

Other innocent Big Tech stocks will probably suffer as well.


8 posted on 01/13/2021 4:03:36 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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Agreed if you simply start talking to people on the phone and shopping locally they can’t touch you


9 posted on 01/13/2021 4:03:39 PM PST by Lod881019
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All the big tech and media were told that if any of them get in the way of Trump’s emergency messages they will lose their FCC licenses.


10 posted on 01/13/2021 4:04:40 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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There are some decisions in life that require consequences. Big tech will now see the consequences.


11 posted on 01/13/2021 4:05:33 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (See Profile: I'm giving up.)
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They dont care. They’re so wealthy that it does not impact them even if their stocks lose half of the value in the stock market. They’re friends with the new administration so they can do whatever the **** they want.


13 posted on 01/13/2021 4:06:03 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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$51 billion.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3924938/posts

That’s chump change. They’ll spend that and more just to get rid of Bad Orange Man.


14 posted on 01/13/2021 4:09:25 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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I don’t see Big Tech is at all concerned. The Oligarchs are moving to consolidate power, they are tired of waiting and putting up with us. With bought and paid for Courts and the Federal Government. competition can be stamped out without regard.

Things are different. There are no more checks and balances in the Peoples Republic of America. The only issue is State governments, which the Feds can keep under control with the Courts, regulations, laws. And, even State governments where it appears we might have control, in many it has been demonstrated that we are not even in control of those States.

PS - for those who want to live in a fantasy where the cavalry is coming over the hill just in time to save us, great. But this is the reality I see and it isn’t pretty - the Oligarchs are not afraid of us in the least. I do not underestimate our enemy.


16 posted on 01/13/2021 4:10:24 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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I have a name for "big tech" executives operating under socialist or communist regimes: Jack Ma!

Disappearing Billionaires: Jack Ma And Other Chinese Moguls Who Have Mysteriously Dropped Off The Radar

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferwang/2021/01/07/disappearing-billionaires-jack-ma-and-other-chinese-moguls-who-have-mysteriously-dropped-off-the-radar/?sh=5619382c2187

17 posted on 01/13/2021 4:10:44 PM PST by amorphous
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We need a comprehensive database of information. Included with it would be these categories: Chinese owned American based companies and corporations, imported Chinese brands and the outlets that sell them, shell corporations owned by China, Billionaires and CEO’s that support the fascist takeover. Add to that a constantly updated list of officials and politicians that are handmaidens to this tyranny.

Once we can all share that data, the Great and Permanent Boycott will begin. De-fund the Left. Let them eat fish heads.


22 posted on 01/13/2021 4:15:22 PM PST by Richard Axtell (So, everything has gone to hell, what did I tell ya?)
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When you start a revolution without moral principles you never know how it will end. The racketeering and breach of contract of the tech oligarchs could have consequences that neither they, or we, could have foreseen.


23 posted on 01/13/2021 4:15:32 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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Big-Tech has managed to upset at least 75 million people

BigTech has managed to worry far more people than that with their actions of the past week - world leaders have taken note, and even leftists realize that they could be next if the political tide turns.
28 posted on 01/13/2021 4:18:57 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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One of the interesting consequences we may see as a result of this idiocy is a slow migration backwards to “low tech” alternatives to some of the technologies we have come to take for granted in our lives. I will offer three examples from my own personal experience.

1. I am in the process of doing a full replacement of all the computer/IT equipment for my office. When I scoped out the project last year, one of the things I decided was that I would migrate back from a cloud-based server to a local network. I simply didn’t trust anyone outside my company to host my files anymore, and the events of last week with all these tech companies colluding to destroy their own customers reinforces this distrust.

2. I bought a new mobile phone. It’s a flip phone that might have been considered state-of-the art in 2002. Think of how ridiculous that is.

3. After American Express announced that they were terminating their political contributions to Republican members of Congress who dared to formally object to the certification of the electoral vote last week, I canceled my company Amex card today. From this point forward I will be paying most of my business expenses with cash or business checks. Any vendor who has a problem with that will be dropped in short order. I really just don’t give a flaming sh!t anymore.

32 posted on 01/13/2021 4:25:06 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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Here is a question. By their constant assistance to Anti-Fa and BLM in their criminal activity including murder, are these Tech Companies not guilty of being accessory’s. Since the perps used them to coordinate the activities of the rioters are they not actually participants in the crime. We’re the crimes not coordinated over a number of states? Put these criminals in jail.


34 posted on 01/13/2021 4:39:05 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789! )
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The next four years are going to be interesting.

Who is really setting the agenda?


35 posted on 01/13/2021 4:39:56 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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Well, I am going to start buying music directly from the artist.

Screw Amazon music service.


39 posted on 01/13/2021 4:58:27 PM PST by GSWarrior
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