Despite Big Tech CEOs abruptly trying to cozy up to the Trump administration, Vice President JD Vance has his eyes wide open on the issues of tech bias and censorship of constitutionally-protected speech.
CBS News host Margaret Brennan asked Vance during an interview Sunday whether Big Tech companies are still on notice, despite so many of their executives showing up to Donald Trump’s inauguration and even donating to his inaugural events. “They're very much on notice,” Vance replied promptly and emphatically.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised to overhaul his company’s so-called fact checking (censorship, really) policies. Zuckerberg attended Trump’s inauguration along with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and X owner Elon Musk (a Trump ally). All of them except Shou Zi Chew also donated money to the Trump inauguration either personally or via their companies, according to Business Insider.
Brennan pontificated to Vance, “The richest men in the world were at that Capitol on Inauguration Day. Heads of Amazon, Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. In August, you told us, Google and Facebook are too big. ‘We ought to take the Teddy Roosevelt approach. Break 'em up. Don't let them control what people are allowed to say.' They've now donated to the Trump inauguration. Are you still going to break up Big Tech?”
Vance focused his reply on protecting free speech. “We believe fundamentally that Big Tech does have too much power, and there are two ways they can go about this,” he explained. “They can either respect Americans' constitutional rights — they can stop engaging in censorship, and if they don't, you can be absolutely sure that Donald Trump's leadership is not going to look too kindly on them.”
Trump, in fact, signed an executive order on his first day in office ending government-tech collusion to censor free speech. Furthermore, his new Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced an end to the State Department’s dealings with censorship initiatives abroad.
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