{"id":312285,"date":"2019-06-14T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=312285"},"modified":"2019-06-17T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:16:30","slug":"why-the-left-targets-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/14\/why-the-left-targets-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Left Targets Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have a story in The Stack<\/a> here today, and it is How a Liberal Think Tank Is Driving 2020 Dems to Crack Down on Big Tech. (grumbling) “Well, big deal, Rush.” No, no. This is an object lesson here. What in the world…? What in the world does the American left have problems with Big Tech for? Do they not understand that Big Tech is on their team? Do they not understand that Big Tech is the coach? Do they not understand that Big Tech is the money and the financing? Do they not understand that Big Tech is one of the biggest allies they\u2019ve got?<\/p>\n

\"\"Yet this story is in Politico: “How a Liberal Think Tank Is Driving 2020 Dems to Crack Down on Big Tech.<\/a>” There\u2019s a think tank out there thinking that Big Tech needs to be regulated. Do you know what it is? I\u2019ll tell you what it is. They hate Big Tech because Trump won! Their hatred for Trump is so overwhelming, they\u2019re blaming Big Tech for not stopping Trump! Then they got this Cambridge Analytica scandal that happened supposedly at Facebook. So Facebook and the rest of Big Tech need to be punished now, because Trump got elected.<\/p>\n

Instead of realizing that Big Tech is dying to help them! Big Tech is dying to beat Donald Trump next. Big Tech is dying to get rid of conservatives and conservatism anywhere they can in their platforms. Instead, we get: “The presidential race and rising anger at Silicon Valley\u2019s power are giving new lift to the Open Markets Institute\u2019s crusade against online monopolies.” I\u2019m wondering if I ought to hope these people succeed! They\u2019re trying to do great damage to Twitter, great damage to Facebook, and they are poisoned.<\/p>\n

They have no idea how good they\u2019ve got it with these tech firms being on their team. But because Trump won and the tech firms were unable to stop it, somehow anger is justified at the tech firms. These people believe that the Russians colluded — the Russians did this — and Zuckerberg knew about it, but he didn\u2019t stop it. (impression) “He could have stopped it! He knew about it, but he didn\u2019t stop it — and Jack Dorsey at Twitter let the Russians run rampant. They could have stopped it. Jack Dorsey didn\u2019t stop it.”<\/p>\n

(Snort!) This is the most amazing thing.<\/p>\n

(laughing)<\/p>\n

They think Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are enemies?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough to get your arms around.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: As I have just recently been reminded, one of the problems that the Drive-Bys have with Big Tech is that they think Big Tech\u2019s overtaking their business<\/a>. The Facebook news feed is more important than the New York Times website or the Washington Post. That\u2019s legit. That is legit. But they\u2019re still all on the same side.<\/p>\n

But the Drive-Bys do think that the big social media — Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of them — are taking dollars away from them and eyeballs.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jim in Hudson, Wisconsin. You\u2019re next, and great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos. I\u2019ve been listening to you since you had your television program. I watched every single television episode.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you. That\u2019s all the way back to 1992.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. I\u2019ve been trying to get in all those years. I finally got in. You were talking about the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was back the in days when TV shows were worth watching.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. I don\u2019t even have TV anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing).<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: (laughing) Anyway, you were talking about the tech companies and how Democrats are now kind of turning on them. I don\u2019t believe the Democrats do anything without a purpose. I think that the Democrats are turning on the tech companies like Facebook and Google and all those because they want to actually regulate them and by regulating those companies they can regulate free speech and therefore those companies will have laws that they can use to keep the conservative voices out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true. There are some people that want to turn \u2019em into the equivalent of utilities, which will —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — then permit what you say is the massive federal regulation. The left loves regulation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And it would stop anything new from coming on. You\u2019ll never have another YouTube. You\u2019ll never have another Facebook —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not gonna have another YouTube or Facebook now. I mean, if one pops up they\u2019re just gonna buy them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s maybe true, but there are other sources out there that some of us do use. I quit using Facebook and Twitter and all that and I use other sources, and they are smaller. But there are a lot of us conservatives that are looking for other means of doing things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. I know. Look. Don\u2019t misunderstand. It\u2019s the nature of the beast.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s why Facebook bought Instagram. It\u2019s why Facebook bought WhatsApp. They didn\u2019t want to compete with them, buy \u2019em, subsume \u2019em, essentially incorporate them or put \u2019em out of business. Eliminate the competition.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I\u2019m not for them regulating because it\u2019s a free market, let the free market decide, and right now the free market is working on small segments of the tech world.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, depends how you define “working.” I mean, I know a lot of people on our side decided to build their businesses and operations on the Facebook platform and then when Facebook turns on \u2019em, they feel \u2013 it\u2019s the same with, why would you let Stephanopoulos into the freaking Oval Office? Why would you put a business of yours on Facebook knowing who they are?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re just a lot of things I don\u2019t understand. Of course, I\u2019ve built my business in entirely different ways prior to the existence — I don\u2019t even need those outfits in order for the business model I have to succeed. I am able to be independent because I\u2019m big and famous. A lot of people are not there yet, and course they need these big platforms to have any chance at exposure.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the lure. It\u2019s tough to build from nothing. It\u2019s much easier to glom onto something that\u2019s already there and then try to get your share of it. I understand. I understand all that. But I just want to warn you that — I know that there are all kinds of little entrepreneurial conservative oriented, not just social media, websites and all kinds of things and they\u2019re constantly springing up, and they\u2019re great. And some of them are run by Millennials and some have great potential.<\/p>\n

\"\"I just want to warn you that if they get pesky, problematic, if they become too effective then Zuckerberg and Dorsey are gonna come swooping in there and just eat them. They\u2019ll just mount a takeover, hostile or otherwise, or buy them out or what have you. And it\u2019s the nature of the beast. It is a free market now. “No, no, Rush, nothing free. These tech companies have become monopolies.”<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s an argument that could be made for that because they don\u2019t have any competition. They\u2019ve bought it all. They have bought the competition. They\u2019ve incorporated the competition. It\u2019s like Walmart buying Costco. It hasn\u2019t happened yet, but that is what\u2019s happening, you know, Facebook — WhatsApp had one and a half billionaire — it\u2019s a messaging app — one and a half billionaire users. Facebook\u2019s got Messenger. They didn\u2019t want to compete with WhatsApp. Just buy it.<\/p>\n

Then the people that ran WhatsApp, they entertain \u2019em for six months and then say, \u201cGet outta here. We don\u2019t want you anymore.\u201d Give \u2019em a retirement package. The WhatsApp guys are gone. They\u2019re billionaires, but their creation is run by Zuckerberg. And then Zuckerberg can either make it big, let it fade away, turn everything toward Messenger, which is what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s taking things about WhatsApp that Messenger doesn\u2019t have, incorporating them into Messenger in order to compete with Apple\u2019s iMessage. That\u2019s the message at work.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, we\u2019ve had some calls on this story. I haven\u2019t gotten into this yet. I just read the headline, people have been reacting to it. \u201cHow a liberal think tank is driving 2020 Dems to crack down on Big Tech.\u201d I haven\u2019t even weighed in on it. You people, it\u2019s great. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just saying my take, which means the take, is yet to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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