Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.

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    10 days ago

    Funny thing for a guy who just got bankrolled into the vice presidency by big tech to say.

    Also, shut the fuck up, no one cares what a vice president thinks.

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      9 days ago

      You don’t understand. This is tech tribal war.

      “Big Tech” is Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. Companies which were fully allied with the Democrats, and which were king of the tech hill until now.

      Musk, Thiel and Ellison (Tesla, Palantir and Oracle) are allied with Trump. Lets call them “Tech B”.

      Vance is doing code speak for: Tech B is gonna break Big Tech up and take top spot.

      And Big Tech knows this, which is why they are scrambling to get into Trumps good graces and trying to get Trump on their side.

      They have more money and influence right now and they are trying to leverage that to keep top spot.

      And Trump is just letting the two teams bid up each other for his favour.

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      9 days ago

      If Harris had won, I think I’d want to hear Tim Walz’ opinion on everything. In his own words, live on a stream or something like that. I bet it would’ve been absolutely wild to hear this Midwestern dad give his takes on AI.

      Edit: grammar mistakes