America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
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Big Tech Writes Its Ticket to the White House
Silicon Valley's allies are filling up the Biden administration. A big payoff is sure to follow.
Silicon Valley played an integral role in propelling Joe Biden to the White House. He raked in uncounted millions from liberal tech billionaires such as Netflix's Reed Hastings, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs; their employees shelled out $5 million more.
As Biden takes office, the techies want what they paid for. Reuters reports that executives at top firms like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are gunning for jobs at the Departments of Defense, State, Justice, and Commerce and also eyeing influential posts at the Federal Trade Commission and beyond.
They want two things: lucrative federal contracts and less scrutiny than they’ve gotten over the past four years, as President Donald Trump has made their bias against conservatives front-page news. The Department of Justice's antitrust inquiry into big tech has already garnered bipartisan backing, including from a group of state attorneys general who have filed their own suit.
A Biden administration could make all of that go away. And it could ignore altogether these firms' obsequious dealings with Communist China.
That explains the rush to fill seats: It’s unlikely that the techies moving into the Biden administration will check their business relationships at the door. Each hire is another pressure point for Silicon Valley’s most powerful to exploit.
This is hardly a problem unique to Democrats—you just hear about it less when they’re in the White House. This sort of revolving door was considered outrageous in the George W. Bush administration, when Democrats and the media harped relentlessly on Dick Cheney’s ties to Halliburton and charged that he was in the pocket of Big Oil. They raised the same ruckus when Trump appointed Exxon chief Rex Tillerson as his first secretary of state.
These unseemly connections aren’t new for Democrats. Google employees averaged a meeting a week with that Obama White House, influencing a president who "routinely pushed policy that pleased the tech-savvy."
Now think what happens with those same lobbyists running the show. After rolling out transition teams free of connections to big tech, Team Biden added several Facebook executives over the Thanksgiving holiday. The transition team "has already stacked its agency review teams with more tech executives than tech critics," Reuters notes, including "several officials from Big Tech companies, which emerged as top donors to the campaign."
Their influence doesn’t stop there. Biden on Tuesday named as an economic adviser Joelle Gamble, who last worked as an investor under eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, funneling funding to outfits run by other Biden appointees. Others may soon follow, like Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy chief and former Kamala Harris aide Mike Troncoso.
For just one example of how a problematic connection, consider WestExec, the consultancy cofounded by secretary of state nominee Tony Blinken. The firm helped Google win contracts from the Defense Department and advised Google cofounder Eric Schmidt's philanthropy. Now, Reuters says, Schmidt is making recommendations for personnel in the Biden Defense Department, a textbook example of business relationships shaping government policy.
That’s just the start of the coming horse trading, hidden behind the Obama-era pretext that the White House is merely cultivating a relationship with the smartest people. But if personnel is policy, the Biden White House will be doing everything it can to comfort Silicon Valley’s most comfortable.
Elon Musk: Americans Will Be ‘Unhappy’ with Big Tech as the ‘de Facto Arbiter of Free Speech’
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has commented on the Big Tech Masters of the Universe and their rampant censorship, saving: “A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech.”
The Tesla CEO was responded to a satirical piece by the Babylon Bee, entitled, “Evil Fascist Dictator Censored And Voted Out Of Office.”
“A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech,” wrote Musk.
A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech
Musk became the world’s richest person last week, with a net worth of more than $185 billion.
The Tesla CEO’s comments arrive in the wake of Twitter permanently banning President Donald Trump from its platform, as well as Mark Zuckerberg locking the president out of his Facebook and Instagram accounts, “indefinitely.”
In order to justify such moves, many big tech companies are pushing the narrative that the president’s words “incite violence,” and are a threat to “democracy” — a precedent that was also used by Google, Apple, and Amazon to justify snuffing out their competition under the guise of having concern for the public’s safety.
Following the president’s ban from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, Google and Apple banned Parler — which many have been using as an alternative to Twitter — from their app stores, a move that effectively excluded the app from all Android and Apple smartphones.
Following Parler being banned from app stores, Amazon swiftly moved in to ban the site from its web hosting services, which knocked Parler offline until it can find another host.
Such moves have been criticized by many as big tech companies joining hands to silence political dissenters and exterminate their competition.
In addition to banning President Donald Trump, social media companies are purging grassroots activists and organizers from their platforms as well, in what has become the widest-reaching big tech crackdown to date.
The Facebook page of the #WalkAway Campaign, a movement started by former liberal Brandon Straka to encourage Democrats to “walk away” from the party, was permanently banned by Facebook shortly before President Trump was banned by Twitter.
In a comment, Straka told Breitbart News that his page only posted testimonials of liberals who were leaving the left, and did not glorify the storming of the capitol last week.
The page had over 500,000 followers at the time of its ban and was a major hub of conservative grassroots activity.
On Twitter, Straka criticized Republicans for their silence on the issue.
Thank you so much to all our Republican senators, who claim that social media censorship is an issue you’re passionate about, who are completely dead silent as we’re being annihilated on social media.
“Thank you so much to all our Republican senators, who claim that social media censorship is an issue you’re passionate about, who are completely dead silent as we’re being annihilated on social media.”
According to the campaign, numerous contractors who have done paid work for the campaign also had their personal accounts removed by Facebook.
One, conservative filmmaker Luke Livingston, told Breitbart News that he lost his personal account containing posts and memories dating back to 2009, because he had been made an administrator of the #WalkAway page for one livestreaming gig in September.
Mindy Robinson, a conservative grassroots organizer who ran in the Republican primary for Nevada’s 3rd congressional district in 2020, also lost her Facebook page, which had over 220,000 members before it was banned.
“The left has gone insane,” said Robinson.
Facebook is also blacklisting any mention of the phrase “stop the steal,” the rallying slogan used by Republicans who consider the outcome of the 2020 election to be illegitimate. Ali Alexander, the activist who popularized the slogan, has been permanently banned by Twitter.
It happened in a hurry. The left is, apparently, attempting to impose the complete destruction of First Amendment rights of roughly half of America's citizens. In cases large and small, massive multinational corporations with no particular allegiance to the United States are colluding with members of the media and Democratic politicians to permanently silence dissent and cement their own power.
To wit: LeeAnn Miller founded PatrioticMe, an online retailer that sells patriotic clothing items, in September of last year. The business advertised on Facebook and was quite successful from the outset. She donates a portion of every sale to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a charity founded to honor the sacrifice of New York City firefighter Stephen Siller, who gave his life to save others as a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001. But on Nov. 4, 2020, the day after the presidential election, she received an email from the Facebook Ads Team informing her that her advertisements did not comply with Facebook's advertising policies or other standards. The subject line of the email stated: "Ad Account Disabled for Policy Violation." She was stunned.
She assumed that the advertisements were disabled in error, so she immediately contacted Facebook and requested a review of her account. She received a second email saying virtually the same thing. After two more requests for a review or explanation, the Facebook Ads Team sent Miller a final notice on Nov. 24 telling her that her restricted account would not be re-enabled. Miller says that she was never able to speak with a live human being. Facebook's decision has resulted in PatrioticMe losing 94% of its traffic. She believes that her ad account was disabled simply because of her products' patriotic message.
To wit: Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank and New York–based Signature Bank have both reportedly cut ties with President Trump and will no longer do business with him in the aftermath of the recent Capitol siege, according to the New York Times. Not only did Signature Bank apparently close all accounts connected with President Trump, but it called for his resignation. That's the proper role of a financial institution, no?
To wit: Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer at Harvard University and former member of the Obama administration's Homeland Security Advisory Council, recently appeared on a CNN panel with Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow, during which she said, "Trump is the spiritual, but I will also say operational leader of this domestic terrorism effort. He tells them where to go. He tells them what to do. He tells them why they're angry." She also called for the "complete isolation" of Trump. A supposedly respected talking head calls the president of the United States "the spiritual and operational leader of a domestic terrorism effort"?
Memo to Kayyem: Trump doesn't tell his supporters "why they're angry." If you want to know why they are angry, look in the mirror.
To wit: House Democrats introduced impeachment articles against Trump just a few days from when he will be leaving the White House anyway. You know, for purposes of "unity and healing."
To wit: Republican former congressman Ron Paul was locked out of his Facebook account by the social media giant on Monday after he dared to share a column blasting Big Tech for silencing Americans and accusing social media platforms of engaging in a coordinated effort to stifle the speech of those with whom they disagree. Paul tweeted, "With no explanation other than 'repeatedly going against our community standards,' @Facebook has blocked me from managing my page. Never have we received notice of violating community standards in the past and nowhere is the offending post identified."
He added, "The only thing we posted to Facebook today was my weekly 'Texas Straight Talk' column, which I have published every week since 1976."
Yes, but it's not 1976 anymore, Ron.
It is 1984.
There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News. More than 85,000 Americans annually potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa program.
Analysis conducted in 2018 discovered that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers. Up to 99 percent of foreign H-1B visa workers imported by the top eight outsourcing firms arrive from India.
Big Tech, Corporate America Lines Up as Donors to Fund Joe Biden’s Inauguration
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that the social media company has “no plans” to lift its ban on President Donald Trump.
“[We have] no plans to lift it right now,” said Sandberg in an interview with NBC News.
“At least through the transition we’ve been very clear,” she added. “There’s obviously so much happening, and this is such a big step. We will definitely let people know and be very transparent about any changes to that.”
Sandberg went on to say that such a move by Facebook shows “that not even a president is above the policies we have.”
Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg locked President Trump out of his Facebook and Instagram accounts “indefinitely,” following the riots at Capitol Hill.
Right now, the narrative that many big tech companies are using is that the president’s words “incite violence” and are a threat to “democracy” — a precedent also used to justify snuffing out their competition under the guise of concern for the public’s safety.
“So why did we do it? We have clearly established principles that say you cannot call for violence,” said Sandberg of Trump’s ban. “In this moment, we took down those posts that we thought may be calling for violence or were calling for violence, immediately.”
“But in this moment, the risk to our democracy is too big that we felt we had to take the unprecedented step of what is an indefinite ban, and I’m glad we did,” she added.
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