Most Americans Say Big Tech Has Too Much Political Clout—They’re Right

July 27th, 2020 5:57 PM

Even in an election year as divided and chaotic as 2020, millions of Americans can seem to agree that Big Tech has too much power. An overwhelming majority of Americans are skeptical over Big Tech’s unchecked power, a Pew Research Center (Pew) study has found. In addition, about half of Americans surveyed also believe the government should do more to regulate them. “Overall, 72% of U.S. adults…

Bozell, Conservative Leaders Demand Answers From Google CEO

July 27th, 2020 12:33 PM

RESTON, Va. -- On Monday, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell and the MRC's Free Speech Alliance released an open letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai ahead of Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee and the Antitrust Subcommittee hearing featuring Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Rep. Jim Jordan Accuses Democrats of Excluding GOP from Tech Hearing

July 8th, 2020 5:23 PM

A major hearing approaches with Big Tech CEO’s Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai in the hot seat. Republicans claim they were not invited. "We hope that this incident was simply a misunderstanding and not an intentional Democrat effort to exclude Republicans and then misrepresent our views to the companies," House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote…

CLIMATE INSANITY: Amazon to Rename Sports Arena ‘Climate Pledge Arena’

Business
June 26th, 2020 12:09 PM

It’s not enough for the leftist climate activist elites to promote their climate agenda in Big Tech company policies alone. Now Amazon has decided to infuse its climate agenda into the naming of a stadium to shove it into sports fans’ faces.

MRC's Brent Bozell Rejects 'Hate-Filled' Amazon Money

June 22nd, 2020 8:00 AM

Reston, VA -- MRC President L. Brent Bozell on Monday announced that the Media Research Center would no longer accept money from the Amazon Smile program. Amazon has brushed off conservative concerns about letting an anti-Christian organization like SPLC decide which groups may receive funds. Additionally, Amazon recently tried to censor a book because it didn’t toe the party line on the…

Three Big Tech Orgs Won’t Sell Facial Recognition to Police

June 11th, 2020 2:53 PM

Three Big Tech companies are the latest to join the fight against police by withholding their facial recognition technologies. IBM, Amazon and Microsoft have vowed to stop helping police with facial recognition. The rationale is that, “Facial recognition technologies have been criticized for exhibiting built-in racial and ethnic biases and misidentifying African Americans and other people of…

Molotov Cocktail, Burning Police Car Items Sold on Google, Amazon

June 11th, 2020 12:00 PM

The movement that spurns capitalism seems to embrace it if it serves its own purposes. Amazon, Etsy, and Google all have sellers who are taking advantage of the current political situation on their platforms.

 

Elon Musk Demands Amazon Be Broken Up, Calls Censorship ‘Insane’

June 9th, 2020 4:58 PM

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to Amazon censorship by demanding the Big Tech’s monopoly be destroyed. “Musk tweeted that it is now ‘time to break up Amazon’ after the tech giant temporarily blocked the publication of a book” skeptical over COVID-19 lockdowns, ReclaimTheNet reported. Former New York Times reporter and author Alex Berenson tweeted a screenshot of a Kindle Direct…

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Amazon Prime's 'Upload' Downloads on Capitalism

Culture
May 5th, 2020 7:00 AM
Amazon Prime’s latest series Upload recently debuted, and unfortunately, it’s nothing less than a big disappointment. Somehow, this sci-fi satire manages to make even the afterlife political. It just goes to show that not even death can stop the social justice warriors on TV.

Lawmakers Threaten to Subpoena Amazon CEO Bezos

May 4th, 2020 4:00 PM
House lawmakers sent a scorching letter to the Amazon CEO, threatening to use force if he does not come voluntarily. House lawmakers sent a letter last Friday demanding that Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos answer for his company’s alleged monopolistic activities — such as using data from third-party merchants using Amazon to make competing products. The letter threatened that, “If…

Trump Forms Tech Task Force to Help Chart Path Forward, Revive Economy

April 15th, 2020 1:42 PM
Coronavirus has created a U.S. market full of instability and uncertainty, but President Donald Trump is calling on industry leaders and experts to answer the call “to chart the path forward toward a future of unparalleled American prosperity.” Trump announced the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups on April 14, the same day he stated that “plans to reopen the country are close to…

Now Abdul-Jabbar Comparing Trump to Nazis in Hunters Series

Culture
March 22nd, 2020 6:05 PM
NBA legend and Trump hater supreme Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leveled a double-barreled attack on the president in recent days. In The Guardian, he claimed the NBA is providing a patriotic response to the pandemic, but President Trump is promoting his own self interests. In The Hollywood Reporter, Abdul-Jabbar says the president reminds him of the Nazi's exploiting people of color in the Hunters series.

Amazon Bans Nazi Books, But Not ‘Mein Kampf’ or Antifa Literature

February 11th, 2020 12:14 PM
Amazon has decided to quietly crack down on books it deems offensive. But the company’s enforcement of standards seems lopsided at best. The New York Times reported that third-party booksellers on Amazon have been forbidden from selling copies of books written by David Duke, a former leader of the KKK, and George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party.

Amazon Flooded with Trump Impeachment-Related Products

January 22nd, 2020 3:36 PM

One Big Tech company has embraced the opportunity to cash in on the impeachment proceedings. From breath freshening “Impeachmints” and “National Embarassmints” to anti-Trump scented candles and shirts, Amazon appears to be making money from hatred of the current president.