How do tech billionaires crush their media critics? Follow the money!
How do tech billionaires exploit taxpayer handouts. Dodge paying their fair share of taxes. Undermine democracy. Crush journalists who criticize them? Follow the money!
‘Sad day for free speech’: Media Matters layoffs follow ‘thermonuclear’ attack by Musk — Raw Story
How Elon Musk’s fortune has benefited from taxpayer help — CNN
It’s not money that Elon Musk is contributing to Donald Trump — Washington Post
Thiel’s Palantir Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Facebook Data — NY Times
How Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel Took Down Gawker — Vogue
Gawker founder Nick Denton reflects on lawsuit that destroyed his company — Ars Technica
Connect the dots for yourself with this relationship map to see how tech billionaires have rigged the system with the help of Republicans, and undermine the democracy while thriving off federal handouts.
Musk crushes his media critics
“The magnate positions himself as a champion of free and open debate while taking extraordinary efforts to silence any honest criticism and independent research that might negatively impact Musk and his many businesses.” — Tim Karr, senior director at the media advocacy group Free Press, in an op-ed for Common Dreams
Threatens the very concept of free speech
Thiel’s maneuvering clobbered the former side, effectively obliterating the conversation. In the end, one gay man wielded his power to put another gay man, Gawker founder Nick Denton, out of business. History is full of gay feuds, but rarely do they threaten the very concept of free speech. — Out
Understand the tech billionaire con
At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme—the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism—is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. — Good Reads
In The End of Reality Jonathan Taplin explains the power of four billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”). The enormous amount of taxpayer money to be funneled into the dystopian ventures of “The Four,” the benefits of which will accrue to billionaires, exacerbate these disturbing trends. and shows how their tech monopolies have:
- brought middle-class wage stagnation
- hollowed out of many American towns, a radical increase in income inequality
- unbounded public acrimony.
TakeAway: Vote for President Biden and Democrats to fix the system that tech billionaires have rigged.
Deepak
DemLabs
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