Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms

Re:Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms by tomohawk on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:21AM (#42829395)

    So we met with very senior people in the White House, in the inner core.
    We basically relayed our concerns about A.I., and their response to us was, “Yes, the national agenda on A.I. We will implement it in the Biden administration and in the second term. We are going to make sure that A.I. is going to be a function of two or three large companies. We will directly regulate and control those companies. There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That’s not happening.”

Incredible hubris.

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Re:Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms by talldayo on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:35AM (#42849510)

  PRISM, Five Eyes, Lawful Intercept, Stingray/ECHELON wiretapping:

Bipartisan support, completely ethical, and an imperative of national defense. We simply cannot trust our tech companies enough to do the right thing on their own. The guidelines are entirely necessary.

  DMA, DSA, conglomerating and regulating international AI businesses:

A liberal ploy, an anti-American conspiracy and incredible hubris. How can we exercise this much power over private businesses that consistently make the right choice? The guidelines are entirely unnecessary.

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Re:Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms by isthatafact on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:25PM (#42858911)

I would need to see evidence of his claims in order to believe him because it is all just so wild that it has the appearance of an unhinged delusional paranoid rant.

Besides that, Andreessen has been pushing the outlandish conspiracy theory that the nuclear testing program of last century was all fake, so I am not sure why one should consider him to be credible.

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