"The power Musk wields was not inevitable. There were many opportunities along the way to expose who he was and to hold his companies accountable for breaking rules and making fraudulent promises. Indeed, some people tried. But time and again, far too many journalists at mainstream publications decided those aspects of his career didn’t belong in the accepted narrative about his brilliance and lawmakers chose to look the other way in the hope he would boost economic prospects and provide them electoral gains. Now the United States — and the world — have to live with the consequences of those decisions, and the people responsible for them should be held to account.

If you thought we were already living in a tech dystopia these past few years, it’s time to buckle up. You haven’t seen anything yet."

https://disconnect.blog/shame-on-the-elon-enablers/

#USA #Trump #Musk #BigTech #SiliconValley

I wrote this with a heavy heart and a newfound fire in me to oppose the tech barons: "The rebellion will be federated" https://elenarossini.com/2024/11/the-rebellion-will-be-federated/

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#blog #FLOSS #bigtech #education #resist #rebel #activism #Fediverse

"Leaders at top big tech firms rushed to congratulate Donald Trump on his landslide election victory as they sought to rebuild bridges with the president-elect — and his most influential Silicon Valley booster, Elon Musk — ahead of a transformative period for the sector.

The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft posted supportive messages on social media on Wednesday, which stood in contrast to their more circumspect reaction to the results of the 2016 and 2020 elections. All of their companies have since faced significant regulatory probes and antitrust threats as part of a crackdown by Joe Biden’s Democratic administration.

They now stand to gain much from a more tech- and business-friendly attitude from Trump, if they can win over a mercurial politician who in the past has repeatedly clashed with what he considers a left-leaning constituency that has funded his opponents and censored him."

https://www.ft.com/content/79f87a7f-66b2-454e-8f58-8d5f535cce66

#USA #Trump #BigTech #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust

Billionaire Big Tech corporate bosses wanted an unregulated global economy, right up to the point when people start stealing their intellectual property....

There's a reason that in Anarchy State & Utopia, Robert Nozick stops his criticisms of market regulation at patents (which he sees as a necessary regulatory intervention by the rump state)....

#BigTech #democracy

If you are concerned by the role of Big Tech in the NHS (and specifically the role of Oracle, then you will find much of interest (and likely some stuff you're already aware of) in Corporate Watch's report on Oracle's work in the NHS.

#BigTech #Oracle #health #NHS #privatisation

https://corporatewatch.org/horroracle-the-big-tech-giant-embedded-in-our-nhs/

Real US Moms Switch to Tel Aviv Hours for Better Social Media Reach
https://isglitch.com/article/20241105-real-us-moms

#isGlitch #tech #bigTech #techNews #technology #socials #Israel

Business leaders are worried about JD Vance and the future of the GOP https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/03/business-leaders-jd-vance-republican-populism-00186981?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #NationalPolitics #publicaffairs #healthcare #Investment #Regulatory #Technology #Antitrust #Companies #Elections #Stability #Americas #Populism #Politics #BigTech #Markets #mergers #Tariffs #Energy #Policy #Rights #Banks #Labor #Media #Trade #Tax

"It’s part of the established playbook that Big Tech — which Andreessen and Horowitz are closely aligned with, despite their posturing — runs at the state level where it can win (as with SB 1047), meanwhile asking for federal solutions that it knows will never come, or which will have no teeth due to partisan bickering and congressional ineptitude on technical issues.

This newly posted joint statement about “policy opportunity” is the latter part of the play: After torpedoing SB 1047, they can say they only did so with an eye to supporting a federal policy. No matter that we are still waiting on the federal privacy law that tech companies have pushed for a decade while fighting state bills.

And what policies do they support? “A variety of responsible market-based approaches.” In other words: hands off our money, Uncle Sam.

Regulations should have “a science and standards-based approach that recognizes regulatory frameworks that focus on the application and misuse of technology,” and should “focus on the risk of bad actors misusing AI,” write the powerful VCs and Microsoft execs. What is meant by this is we shouldn’t have proactive regulation but instead reactive punishments when unregulated products are used by criminals for criminal purposes.

This approach worked great for that whole FTX situation, so I can see why they espouse it.

“Regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs,” they also write. It would take thousands of words to unpack all the ways that this idea, expressed in this context, is hilarious. But basically, what they are suggesting is that the fox be brought in on the henhouse planning committee."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/01/microsoft-and-a16z-set-aside-differences-join-hands-in-plea-against-ai-regulation/

#AI #AIRegulation #USA #California #SB1047 #Microsoft #a16z #BigTech

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#ki #ai #bigTech #Chatgpt #meme #humor #gafam
edit: source: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@_benui/109852367054141914

#USA #us #deepstate #censorship #youtube #google #bigpharma #bigtech #vaccination #covid