Democrats made a strategic alliance with Silicon Valley during Barack Obama’s presidency that they would be wise to shake in the face of a second Donald Trump term. Since the Obama era, Big Tech CEOs have portrayed themselves as champions for climate action and social justice, defenders of reproductive rights and fundamental freedoms, and thus allies to Democrats and progressives. “The good guys” of corporate America. But those days are long gone. And it's time to stop giving them a free pass.
Leading up to this year’s election, these same CEOs showed their true priorities: zero oversight, bigger government contracts, and unfettered monopoly power superseded years of lip service about social responsibility, protecting our democracy, or even U.S. national security.
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