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Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is a Giveaway to Big Tech
- hunglee2 4y agonot quite, if Biden plays it well it will be a cooperation between US national security state + US big tech to ensure perennial US hegemony. I believe this end is what Eric Schmidt has now turned his attention to; Peter Thiel in his own way is also nudging toward this end
- ydlr 4y agoThat seems to be exactly what the article is arguing: > The narrative of democracy triumphing over high-tech dictatorship obscures America’s real goal, which is to prevent Beijing from displacing Washington as the leader in global surveillance and the owner of much of the world’s internet infrastructure.
- Proven 4y ago