The march towards authoritarian socialism in United States has an unusual ally - Big Tech. Beholden to left wing regimes in China, Vietnam, Portugal, Venzuela, North Korea, and France for a substantial part of their profits either (either revenue or sourced product), Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft and a host of other Silicon Valley Titans spout Environment Social and Governance (ESG) goals in North America but it is a smokescreen. They embrace left wing “woke” ideals like climate justice, inclusion, diversity, equality and social justice in their domestic markets while looking the other way while Chinese authorities carry out oppressive social injustices in the Ancient Kingdom and utilize their “useful idiots” to steal technology, expand their reach in mining and energy resources worldwide aided and abetted by Silicon Valley.
There is a Cold War underway and Western Democracies are losing it in large part with the subservience of the Silicon Valley Titans to China and their overt actions to promote left wing candidates for election in United States and Canada while suppressing free speech and denying Conservative voice access to their platforms. Trump was right that the 2020 election was “stolen” but not by election fraud at the ballot box but by the intervention of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter (and likely others) to censor criticism of Joe Biden, promote criticism of Donald Trump, frustrate conservative voices ability to reach audiences, and make multi-million dollar donations to left wing candidates and causes.
It is worthwile to review some of the over steps Big Tech has taken to influence the outcome of the 2020 election and prevent a Conservative candidate from succeeding in 2024.
Facebook - CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to Democrats and actively supressed the Hunter Biden laptop news, while promoting the disinformation about “Russian collusion” with Trump and “Russian disinformation” regarding the Hunter Biden laptop data. Facebook “fact checkers” were little more than proxies for Democrats ensuring that the “facts” they found lined up with left wing talking points. News feeds on Facebook ensured left wing talking points were emphasized while opposing views were suppressed or censored, particularly in respect of the poorly conceived COVID policies of the World Health Organization, Center for Disease Control, Biden Administration and Trudeau government in Canada. Thousands of people lost their livelihoods and some lost their lives as a result.
Facebook has 2 billion users including 240 million in the United States. With that level of access, even minor misinformation can affect the outcome of local and and national elections and in 2020 did so. Facebook’s meddling in elections has had the platform banned or censored in 26 countries.
Twitter - Twitter booted Trump off the platform while he was a sitting President of the United States, Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop information just as Facebook did, and promoted the same Russian collusion and Russian disinformation horseshit that Facebook did. Twitter reaches 486 million people and information censored on Twitter can and did effect the United States 2020 Presidential election.
Jack Dorsey’s after the election admission to Congress that stifling the Hunter Biden story was a “mistake” is typical, pretending contrition after the damage is done. He must have learned this from Justin Trudeau who apologizes so often for his own stupidity it is hard to keep track.
Amazon.com - While still in office, Trump was banned from Twitter which had become his main platform to communicate with Americans. Conservatives created a new social medium called Parler, and Amazon immediately withdrew Amazon Web Services support for Parler killing the Parler platform in its entirety and ensuring that left wing voices could be heard on Twitter but no platform permitted conservative voices an airing. Under Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ ownership, the Washington Post became another left wing rag promoting liberal values and talking points including identity politics and climate change rhetoric. One third of Amazon’s top sellers come from China and China has influence over Amazon and uses it.
Apple - China is Apple’s second largest market and the source of most of its manufactured products, particularly the iPhone. Apple cannot afford to offend Chinese leaders.
Microsoft - Censored conservative posts in online discussions hosted by Microsoft sites. Here is an example of one of my posts censored by Microsoft for “not meeting our guidelines”.
Paypal - Canceled the accounts of conservatives arbitrarily.
Google - Google earns a solid $3 billion a year from China. Google altered its search algorithmn to ensure content that supported the Democrats was given priority.
The left wing focus on “woke” agenda items has been at the expense of actual problems faced by American and Candian citizens. While leaders give speeches about LGBTQ+ rights, aboriginal reconciliation, mandatory pronouns and climate change, their policies have driven inflation to the highest level in decades; energy prices beyond the level ordinary people can afford; and, housing costs to the most unaffordable level on record. Housing costs now approach 60% of household income and taxes eat up another 42.5% of the average household’s income, leaving nothing for food, clothing or transportation.
To make ends meet, Canadians have had to dramatically reduce their savings rate with many simply consuming what savings they set aside during the early days of the COVID pandemic. Without savings, the economy cannot fund capital expenditures and future economic growth is punished.
Trudeau would have you believe the problems are short term and that a short and shallow recession is all that is needed to bring inflation under control and restore normality to markets. Utter nonsense. A recession will see higher unemployment, tumbling stock markets, and falling energy prices but will not see investment in the additonal energy resources needed for a full recovery. Absent major growth in world fossil fuel output, world markets face staglation or persistent inflation and there is no remedy for the malaise the left wing governments have created if they don’t abandon the climate crap and encourage more oil & gas production.
Big Tech should be the engine of productivity for Western Democracies but has become the power behind left wing desire to put an end to capitalism and limit freedoms including freedom of speech and freedom of association.
While China did give $1.5B to Hunter to manage, seems like it was a good investment. Its pretty obvious to anyone that's looking what you say, however it is what it is. Best to focus on helping yourself and your family while ignoring what's going on... BTW pretty much the same thing is going on in Canada, only difference that in Canada its easy to see the media is paid off, including CBC because it is, so that part of it is totally above board.. George Orwell truly was a prophet, but it took facebook etc and smartphones to implement it...
The election was indeed stolen. Who gave the order to stop counting vote at midnight? If Italy and every other countries can finish counting votes on the same date so should America, just like all previous election before that. Fb did more than algorithmn Mark Z actually provided millions funding for thousands of drop boxes in remote unsupervised areas which collected ten of thousands questionable ballots more than the registered voters in the area. Every one of Trump's rally was overwhelming attended to beyond capacity while biden campaign in the basement and "won". Historically when the key states are won the winner is obvious but not last time. Waving to empty crowds are hallmarks of biden anf trudeau.