The President of the United States Donald Trump has apparently created an alliance with some of the most prominent technological billionaires in the country.
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Google CEO of Google Sundar Pichai are some of the technological timing that present His inauguration. Openai Executive Director Sam Altman jumped on the tape, praising him in a recent post after a Proposed $ 500 billion Investing in artificial intelligence technology.
A lavish praise may seem like a shift in the loyalty of technological leaders who are historically understood as a greater support of Democrats than Republicans. This shift can be the result of Democrats under former President Joe Biden who accept the antitrust’s efforts that were aiming for major technological companies and generally become more critical of billionaires.
These technological titans seem to be eager for accepting a Republican leader who will reduce taxes, work against the effort to associate, give them government contracts, and let their companies be as big as they want to be.
Zephyr Teachout, a lawyer, author and associate professor of Fordham University of Fordham, says great technological leaders were aligned with democrats, which became even clearer than recently.
“Technical leaders have never been with democrats. They have always been aligned with power,” Teachout says. “In Obama’s Era, Google wrapped his hands and tentacles around Obama’s administration, and for a combination of cultural reasons and a reflected splendor, there was a feeling that they were great technology, for Democrats,” our people. “
As The Intercept reported in 2016, the White House under President Barack Obama had a very close relationship with Google. He reached the point where Google leaders offered the administration “Expertise, Services, Tips and Staff for Vital Government projects”.
Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says the famous business leaders on the left are the right, depending on who is in power. He says working relationships are also a large part of why technical executives are behind Trump.
“After the last Trump elections … There were many companies in their ranks with work to come, where elite engineers and other employees were organized to counteract the main business lines, such as cinema products and military contracts,” Schneider said.
“This took a big tribute to these leaders and made it clear that they no longer want it. The takeover of Elon Musk on Twitter allowed a lot of other technological executive directors to purify their teams for trust and security. The hug of Trurism is further extension of that path,” added is.
During the Bidel years, many technological companies saw their employees who organized unions and became more critical of their companies, such as concluding a contract with US military. Musk has been a prominent opponent for years and managed to beat the resistance of his companies employees.
The acceptance of Trump may currently feel politically useful, but it may not be sound in the long run. Trump has repeatedly shown that he would throw out associates who were once loyal to him, and others did something he doesn’t love or is no longer useful. Technical executive directors who feel love now may not feel it enough soon.
“The history we have seen since the first term is yes, even if he is your friend right now, that doesn’t mean you will be your friend in a year,” says Mark Lemley, a professor of rights at Stanford University. “Even if there is an ideological alignment, and even if they think their companies will benefit from them to suck in Trump, it will happen until it does. He has no loyalty to them.”
From Steve Bannon, Trump’s main strategist in the initial few months of his first term, to his many staff chiefs to Anthony Scarmucci, the director of communication, he was also known in the first term for shooting people who were once close to him during his first term. After all, “You were dismissed” was his ticket as a host of a reality show.
The role of Democrats
Now that the sands have moved, Democrats will have to decide how to approach the great technology by going forward. Will he continue to perform antitrust’s efforts and fight to tax a billionaire? Or will they limit these efforts to calm the billionaire?
“Democrats should be part of people – workers, small business owners, local communities, whether in cities or in small towns – and fight against brakes to steal salaries, exploit consumers and destroy the chance that small businesses progress,” says Teachout. “Democrats should be a small dual party, which is incompatible with the Gargantian octopus of power.”
Basically, teaching says that Democrats should not be withdrawn on their efforts on the reform of large technologies and tax billionaires, and they should continue to fight for people of the working class. He says Democrats should set a clear plan to break up great technology and recognize the threat that great technology represents “innovation, equality and democracy”.
“I think they need a fundamentally different approach. Instead of focusing on solving problems in the technology from above down, politics should focus on the construction of power from below upwards, empowering the communities to solve their own problems, not to strengthen the power of the billionaire executive directors, “Schneider says.
“This means insisting that technological companies protect interoperability and the right for users to easily go to other services. This means public investment in open code software [including for AI] That community can be started and controlled, “Teachout said.
Social media platforms like Bluesky, which have become popular with left -wing web users who want to avoid platforms like Musk’s X are built to open and protect users’ rights. This can be an indicator of the direction that people on the left will go when it comes to technology.
Lemley says that Democrats are unlikely to be able to achieve much of it at least in the next two years, while the Republicans control home and the Senate, but they can talk about questions related to technology and the public to get on their side. He said that much of the public was already ready to fall behind the type of message they could wait.
“I think a public mood against Big Tech is quite dramatic,” Lemley says. 24th January poll The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that people do not support billionaires who deal with government policy.
It is not yet clear whether this breakup between Democrats and great technology will be permanent, but it is clear that some in the Democratic Party were ready for it, because algorithms that help spread disinformation on social media platforms did not benefit from their messages or their election outlook.
“I think the new startups at some point will have to bring a common reason to Democrats, whether it is immigration or education or simply understanding science, Trump administration is not one that is actually positioned to stimulate innovation in America or competitiveness in long run,” he says, ” Lemley.
