Posted on 01/13/2025 8:54:34 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Tim Sweeney, the founder and chief executive of Fortnite parent company Epic Games, has accused Big Tech leaders of shifting political allegiances to "curry favor" with President-elect Donald Trump.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, Sweeney warned that Silicon Valley's most powerful bosses would be feigning political allegiance to the MAGA movement to push a "scummy monopoly campaign" with the incoming administration.
Newsweek reached out to Epic Games, Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, OpenAI, Tesla, and the Trump transition team via email for comment.
Sweeney's accusations come after several tech chief executives who did not publicly support Trump before the election have donated or met with him following his victory, including the bosses of Amazon, Apple, Open AI, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet, which owns Google.
Trump's alliances with right wing tech moguls like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel suggest a potential pivot toward deregulation and policies favorable to major tech firms.
Sweeney' wrote that the chief executives were acting cynically to advance their own companies' agendas rather than out of true political allegiance.
"After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors," he wrote on X.
Sweeney has long been critical of Big Tech for what he sees as monopolistic practices. In 2023, Epic Games won a lawsuit against Google after a judge ruled Google's Play app store acted as an illegal monopoly.
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Tim Sweeney and Epic Games are in bed with the Chinese. Tencent not only owns a significant stake in Epic, they were just listed by Biden’s administration as a Chinese military company.
Of course not.
Nope.
Here’s my point: corporations in general and big tech corporations in specific are apolitical and take a theatrical approach to government. Their mouthpieces will say and do anything to preserve and to augment power.
“Abandoning wokeness” is pure kabuki.
Keep your eye on the ball.
Sweeney isn’t the issue.
“I’m happily ignorant about gaming.“
Obviously.
Corporate management cares about their stock options and bonuses. Period.
Relevance?
He’s absolutely correct about this. Big Tech needs to be busted into a million pieces. Alphabet is the worst of the worst but Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and a bunch of others need to have chunks torn out of them by the DOJ in anti trust actions.
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