Big Tech Spent $250M to Buy Off The U.S. Congress.
Big Tech corporations including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook spent at least a quarter a billion dollars killing legislation aimed at regulating
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Big Tech corporations including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook spent at least a quarter a billion dollars killing legislation aimed at regulating their censorship of conservatives, as well as generally reining in their power.
Republicans concerned about censorship worked alongside Democrats championing unions to pass bills with bipartisan majorities. None of them made it to the floor of either chamber of Congress, despite public support for regulating Big Tech.
Democrats are reluctant to aggravate Silicon Valley at a time when Big Tech continues to toss cash at the party and wage and ideological war on alleged “hate speech” and “misinformation”. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised millions from tech bosses before breaking a promise to put the bills before the full House of Representatives as Speaker. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer privately assured tech donors that the Senate bills could not overcome filibustering – possibly influenced by the employment of one of his daughters by Facebook and another by Amazon, for whom she is a registered lobbyist.
Congressional Republicans display compromised, too. Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top fundraiser and confidante Jeff Miller counts Amazon and Apple as two of his biggest clients. One of McCarthy’s first acts upon replacing Pelosi was to demote Rep. Ken Buck, who had led Republican efforts on Big Tech regulation, in favor of Rep. Thomas Massie, a “libertarian” who insists Big Tech should not be subject to “Big Government”.
