What will change with Kamala for big tech companies?

What will change with Kamala?

When George Bush (h) won the elections in the United States in the year 1998 2000, a series of events was set in motion that would profoundly change the technology industry. Bush reversed the antitrust process that was going to force Microsoft to split. Some believe that if the split had occurred, the company would have paid more attention to the nascent market for mobile devices.

The Bush thing was not ideological. Microsoft was a generous contributor to his campaign. The same as Big Tech with that of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris

Varias veces comentamos en Linux Adictos como tanto en Estados Unidos como en la Unión Europea llarge technology companies are investigated for their anti-competitive practicess. Both the House of Representatives antitrust subcommittee and the Federal Trade Commission have the magnifying glass down on the shares of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google. For its part, the Department of Justice has already filed a lawsuit against the latter company.

Silicon Valley loves Kamala

Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris would be his vice presidential candidate in August. In October alone, employees of Google, Apple and Facebook donated a million and a half dollars to the campaign.ña. Biden had only gotten four hundred and fifty thousand from them, while Trump had to get by with one hundred and six thousand dollars.

The appointment of Kamala Harris is believed to have contributed $ XNUMX million to the campaign. Major contributors include employees of Alphabet (Google's parent company) Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.

The ability to open the wallets of Silicon Valley goes back a long way. During her campaign to be California attorney general and senator, Kamala Harris enlisted input from top Apple executives like Jony Ive, Salesforce's Mark Benioff, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Your relationships with Silicon Valley are not limited to receiving money, has given talks on Google and Facebook as well as being friends with Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, attended the wedding of Sean Parker, Napster co-founder and first president of Facebook. Not to mention, some former Harris aides now work for tech companies, including Google, Amazon, and Airbnb.

And if we need something else to add to the paranoia, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist John Doerr raised money for his presidential bid.

What will change with Kamala?

Although the position of the new government is not officially known, analysts agree that Kamala Harris will not be the technology "employee of the month".

Some remember that in 2018, During a hearing investigating Facebook in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, he gave Mark Zuckerberg a rape.

After asking him if he had participated in a meeting in which it was decided not to inform users of the data leak, he clearly expressed his doubts about Facebook's concern for transparency and trust.

Consulted by a journalistic medium, the new vice president declared:

I believe that technology companies should be regulated. My first priority is going to be that we ensure that privacy is something that is intact and that consumers have the power to make decisions about what happens to their personal information.

During her work as a legislator, Kamala Harris She was a strong supporter of laws preserving digital privacy, protecting against online harassment, and increasing the rights of app workers.

According to Dean Lacy, professor of government at Dartmouth College, Tech companies view Harris as less regulatory than the left wing of the Democratic Party and less hostile to technology than the Trumpist wing of the Republican Party. According to Lacy, the goal of donations is to make sure they are heard.

The consensus among analysts is that the industry bet on the lesser evil. They know they are going to face stricter regulations. But, at least there is someone in government who knows the world of technology. With Trump, they feared surgery performed without anesthesia and with a butcher knife.


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  1.   pedruchini said

    I believe that George Bush did not win the 1998 elections, as stated at the beginning of the article, but in the year 2000, since he was president since January 2001.

    1.    Diego German Gonzalez said

      Yes, you are right, it was in the year 2000