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The United States President Donald Trump has seemed to form an alliance with some of the most notable technological billionaires in the country.
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are some of the technological tycoons that present His inauguration. Openai's CEO Sam Altman jumped on the tape, praise him in a recent post after a offered $ 500 billion Investments in artificial intelligence technology.
Lush praise may seem like a change in the faithfulness of technological leaders, which are historically regarded as more secure Democrats than Republicans. This change may be the result of Democrats with former President Joe Biden, who perceive antitrust efforts aimed at large technology companies and generally become more critical of billionaires.
These technology titans now seem to be eager to accept a Republican leader who will reduce their taxes, work against the merger efforts, give them state contracts and leave their companies as big as they want to be.
Zephir studied, a lawyer, author and associate professor at Fordham University, says that major technology leaders were not aligned with the Democrats, and this was even more clear than it was recently.
“Technical leaders have never been with the Democrats. They have always been aligned with power, “says Teachout. “In Obama's era, Google wrapped his weapons and tentacles around and in the Obama administration, and for a combination of cultural reasons and reflected brilliance, it made sense that great technologies were for Democrats” Our People. “
As Intercept reported in 2016, the White House with President Barack Obama had a very close relationship with Google. He came to the point where Google leaders offered the administration “Expertise, Services, Tips and Staff for Vital Government Projects”.
Nathan Schneider, an assistant in media research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says business leaders were known to swing from left to right, depending on who is in power. He says labor relations are also a large part of the reason why technology leaders are behind Trump.
“After the last Trump elections … Many companies had uprisings in their ranks, where elite engineers and other employees organized to oppose the main activities of the business, such as products for China and military treaties,” Schneider said.
“This took a big influence on these leaders and they clarified that they did not want more than that. Taking over Elon Musk on Twitter gave many other technological executives to clear their trust and safety teams. The embrace of Trumpism is a further extension of this time, “he added.
Over the years of Biden, many technology companies have seen their employees organize themselves to form alliances and become more critical of the actions of their companies, such as contracting with the US military. Musk has been a prominent opponent of the Union for years and has succeeded in defeating the resistance from the employees of his companies.
Trump's embrace may feel politically appropriate at the moment, but it may not be a long -term sound. Trump has repeatedly shown that he will throw away collaborators who have once been loyal to him the second, they do something he does not like or are no longer useful. Technical executives who now feel love may not feel it soon.
“The story we have seen from the first term is that even if he is your friend at the moment, it does not mean that he will be your friend in a year,” says Mark Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University. “Even if there is an ideological alignment and even if they think that their companies will benefit from sucking Trump, this will happen exactly until it happens. He has no loyalty to them. “
From Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist in the first few months of his first term, to his many chiefs of staffs in Anthony Skmucci, director of communications also in the first term, Trump was known for fired people who had once been close to him during his first term. In the end, “you are fired” was his phrase as a reality TV show presenter.
Democrats' role
Now that the sands have shifted, the Democrats will have to decide how they will approach great technologies forward. Will they continue to follow antitrust efforts and fight for tax billionaires? Or will they limit these efforts to appease billionaires?
“Democrats should be part of the people – workers, owners of small business, local communities, whether in cities or small cities – and fight against robbing intermediaries who steal salaries, exploit consumers and destroy small businesses to flourish.” , says studio. “The Democrats must be the party of Little D Democracy, and this is incompatible with the Gargantan Octopus of Power.”
In essence, Teachout says that Democrats should not back into their efforts to reform large technologies and tax billionaires and they must continue to fight for working -class people. She says Democrats should expose a clear program to break great technology and acknowledge the threat that great technology is “innovation, equality and democracy”.
“I think they need a radically different approach. Instead of focusing on solving problems in top -down technology, policy should focus on building a power from bottom up, empowering communities to solve their own problems, not to strengthen the power of the billionaire executives, “Schneider says.
“This means insisting that technology companies protect the operational compatibility and the right of consumers to easily go to other services. This means public investment in open source software (including AI) that communities can manage and control, “Teachout said.
Social media platforms such as Bluesky, which have become popular with left -handed, internet users who want to avoid platforms like Musk's X, have been built to be open and protect the rights of users. This may be an indication of the direction that people on the left will continue when it comes to technology.
Lemley says Democrats will probably not be able to achieve much of anything for the next two years while Republicans control the Chamber and the Senate, but they can talk about technology related problems and get the public in their turn. He said that much of the public is now ready to stand behind the appearance of the message they can fuck.
“I think public sentiment against Big Tech is quite drastically growing,” Lemley says. A January 24 Poll The Center for Studies of Public Affairs of the Associated Press-Nork shows that people do not support the billionaires who are involved in government policy.
It is not yet clear whether this breakup between Democrats and major technologies will be constant, but it is clear that some of the Democratic Party is ready for this as algorithms that help spread misinformation in social media platforms, certainly not have benefited from their messages or their election odds.
“I think new start -up companies will have to make a common cause with Democrats at some point, whether it is immigration or education or just take science seriously, the Trump administration is not the one that is actually positioned to encourage innovation in America or competitiveness In the long run, “Lemley says.
