Big Tech minions could compromise America's Intelligence community WashTimesOpEd
Data breaches, tracking, monitoring, duping users into providing personal data and then selling it to third parties, and of course, blatant efforts to manipulate information to drive an agenda. Now the same people who have thrown gasoline on the left’s cancel-culture bonfire may now end up in government agencies that have an enormous ability to affect our civil liberties.
But in a hyper-politicized environment with an ascendant radical left, it’s worth asking whom the government will be recruiting. For all the talk about diversity and equity on the left, this talent pool doesn’t look like much of America in terms of core beliefs. A Stanford study after 2016 showed that of 600 tech leaders and founders, only 14% were Republicans. The armies of techies they hired were even more partisan.
Since the pandemic, the power of Big Tech has only grown. Just think about how many careers and reputations were destroyed by their censors for countering the government’s narrative about COVID-19. Think about the influence these companies had on the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The crisis of self-censorship they have helped create in what was supposed to be the digital town square has amounted to an unprecedented suppression of free speech.
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