Political donations are only one small piece of this. What we've seen this election cycle is how tech CEOs have gone mask off and completely backed the incoming

Political donations are only one small piece of this. What we've seen this election cycle is how tech CEOs have gone mask off and completely backed the incoming Trump administration [1]. It's worth remembering that Silicon Valley's history is inextricably interwoven with the US military. Where once the likes of Facebook, Google or Amazon were upstarts, they are now functionally defense contractors, some more openly than others (eg Palantir). Americans like to criticize the Chinese control of Chinese Internet companies, including cooperating with the Great Firewall and moving in lockstep to Chinese government policy and messaging (which they do). I hate to break it to you but American Internet companies are doing exactly the same thing. The real threat of Tiktok was that it doesn't move in lockstep to the US State Department. US tech giants hide behind "algorithms" to manufacture consent [2] (eg by hiding, downranking and/or blocking content relating to Palestine [3]). People who work in tech generally are more socially progressive. Economics is more of a mixed bag. Most people don't realize pretty much everything is about economics. Big Tech pay lip service to these progressive attitudes by embracing things like Pride Month. Such people might decry the naked politics of Elon Musk, to name one prominent example. But all this progressivism by Big Tech is purely performative and that's going to be increasingly obvious. You don't see so many of these tech CEOs on this list of political donations but I really wonder what the picture looks like when all the dust settles on PAC donations. I think you'll find there's very little daylight between the politics of any of these CEOs. [1]: https://archive.is/DqGCg https://archive.is/DqGCg [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent [3]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...