Big Tech corporations in Silicon Valley act essentially as outsourced arms of the United States government.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook have thousands of contracts with the US military, spy agencies, and police, NBC News has reported.
They are the computer technology version of the weapons corporations that are the Pentagon’s top contractors: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman.
From 2004 to 2021, Big Tech corporations Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter signed at least $44.7 billion in contracts with US government agencies, the vast majority with the Defense Department, VICE documented.
Facebook has contracts with the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and has been paid to promote propaganda from US state media outlet Voice of America.
Twitter also has a contract with DHS, and is paid to promote US state media propaganda.
Journalist Yasha Levine detailed the close links between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon in his book “Surveillance Valley.” Many of these Big Tech corporations in fact emerged out of the US military-industrial complex.
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2022-01-26 at 08:19
August 12, 2020: The day capitalism officially died and replaced by something even worse
https://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2022/01/august-12-2020-day-capitalism.html