Since the October 7, 2023, massacre perpetrated on Israeli citizens by Hamas, with the subsequent response by Israel to declare war and enter the Gaza Strip to defeat Hamas, overt anti-Semitic sentiment has erupted on college campuses across America. Citing reports of “widespread antisemitic harassment,” the U.S. Department of Education is now <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment">actively investigating</a> 60 institutions of higher learning.
Unfortunately, anti-Semitism is also playing out in K-12 education, particularly in a number of Northern California school districts like Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD), Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD), and Menlo Park City School District (MPCSD). These and other districts are embroiled in controversy over California’s Ethnic Studies curriculum mandate.
Many Californians are aware that in October 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assembly Bill 101 (AB101)</a> into law, requiring all students graduating from high school in the 2029-2030 school year to take at least one semester of ethnic studies. The intent, per the state’s <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/esmc.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum</a>, is to encourage cultural understanding of the struggles of equality, equity, justice, racism, ethnicity, and bigotry that have been prevalent throughout the history of America.
What is less known is that California first considered a draft Ethnic Studies curriculum co-authored by Community Responsive Education (CRE) founder and director Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, which was rejected by the State Board of Education as being offensive to the Jewish community. Consequently, upon signing AB101, Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AB-101-Signing-Message-PDF.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a letter</a> to the State Assembly that noted the bill “expresses the Legislature&#8217;s intent that courses should not include portions of the initial draft curriculum that had been rejected by the Instructional Quality Commission due to concerns related to bias, bigotry, and discrimination.”
The distinct anti-Jewish bias in the previous draft curriculum led Jewish community leaders, as well as the California legislature’s Jewish caucus, to lobby for removal of the offensive material. But that didn’t stop Tintiangco-Cubales, with other like-minded educators, from marketing the rejected curriculum, which they have labeled the <a href="https://www.liberatedethnicstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum</a> or simply “Liberated.”
Given that AB101 allows school districts to either adopt the revised model Ethnic Studies curriculum or develop their own, PVUSD initially elected to bring on Tintiangco-Cubales and CRE as the sole contractor to develop a custom curriculum. As feared by the Pajaro Valley Jewish community, the PVUSD ethnic studies curriculum has been infused with “Liberated” anti-Semitic language in English, History, and Art classes, as well as one standalone ethnic studies class mandated by California.
In a recent <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhernholm/2024/05/02/new-paradigm-or-political-agenda-ethnic-studies-vs-liberated-es/?sh=29c3732a52aa">article</a> examining the “Liberated” ethnic studies curriculum, Sarah Hernholm noted how the curriculum characterizes Zionism as a settler colonial movement. Such a description deprives the Jewish people of their historical ties to the land of Israel, dating back to around <a href="https://www.history-of-israel.org/history/time_line.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1000 B.C.</a>, as well as their right to self-determination as a people. The “Liberated” curriculum also <a href="https://ceasefiretoday.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">links to a site</a> calling for a ceasefire in Gaza which describes the root causes of violence in Gaza as the “Israeli military occupation and apartheid.”
Concerned Jewish organizations have written letters to PVUSD expressing their opposition to the “Liberated” curriculum. The Simon Wiesenthal Center asked PVUSD to not renew its contract with CRE due to its blatant anti-Semitism. Local Santa Cruz County rabbis asked the same, and further asked PVUSD to develop a curriculum that will unite, not divide, the PVUSD community. And from the very beginning, the California Legislative Jewish Caucus has argued that this curriculum promotes anti-Semitism by denigrating Jewish identity and singling out Israel for condemnation.
The Pajaro Valley Jewish community members I spoke with made it clear they support ethnic studies but oppose anti-Semitism and what they assess as an erasure of the American Jewish experience in the curriculum. After hearing testimony from the community in September 2023, the PVUSD board decided not to renew the contract with CRE and stuck to their decision, despite pressure from vocal activists who support CRE. 
Yet while the controversial curriculum remains, board members and members of the community have been publicly attacked as white supremacists, racists, and genocide supporters by ethnic studies teachers, students, anti-Israel activists outside PVUSD, and University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) professors who have waded into the PVUSD controversy.
Jewish community members fear that adoption of this ethnic studies curriculum is a portent of things to come nationally. <a href="https://campusdirectory.ucsc.edu/cd_detail?uid=cjhong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Christine Hong</a>, Department Chair of the openly <a href="https://calendar.ucsc.edu/event/education-department-colloquium-do-palestinian-lives-matter-in-teacher-education-centering-an-anti-zionist-commitment-in-early-childhood-teacher-educationhttps:/calendar.ucsc.edu/event/education-department-colloquium-do-palestinian-lives-matter-in-teacher-education-centering-an-anti-zionist-commitment-in-early-childhood-teacher-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Zionist</a> Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at UCSC (who was subject to a recent <a href="https://ia600402.us.archive.org/9/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/OCR%20UC%20resolution%20letter%2012-20-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal investigation</a> into charges of faculty anti-Semitism), has led the charge of UCSC faculty, appearing many times at PVUSD board meetings and insisting that Tintiangco-Cubales and CRE provide PVUSD what she deems as the only acceptable ethnic studies curriculum.
Alarmingly, Dr. Hong has also been actively involved in a working group seeking to develop the California high school ethnic studies <a href="https://edsource.org/2022/uc-considers-imposing-criteria-for-californias-high-school-ethnic-studies-classes/670186" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requirement for admission</a> into the UC school system. This would have national implications – if the curriculum is accepted for admission to UC schools, the requirement could then be imposed on all other states as well.
California has exported bad policies to other states in the past — on energy, gig workers, and firearms, to name a few. It now seems to be flirting not only with inflicting on its own students a divisive approach to teaching ethnic studies but exporting its radical teaching nationwide. Hopefully the U.S. Department of Education will take note of what’s going on at the K-12 level in California before it too becomes a national problem.
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Walter Myers III is a Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and an adjunct faculty member at Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology.
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Apple is the largest company in the world — and, unfortunately, one of the ones most given to leftward corporate drift. Apple is a top-tier sponsor of the Human Rights Campaign, a radical organization that pressures companies to provide puberty blockers under the guise of &#8216;healthcare.&#8217; It <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-takes-down-quran-bible-jehovahs-witenss-apps-in-china-2021-10#:~:text=Apple%20has%20taken%20down%20a,website%20Apple%20Censorship%20on%20Tuesday." target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquiesces</a> to requests from the Chinese Communist Party to censor Bible and Quran apps in its Chinese market. It <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-entrepreneur-camp-program-bars-applicants-based-on-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held entrepreneurship camps</a> only for applicants of targeted racial minority groups. And the company <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-p-morgans-hate-list-1503619180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donated</a> a million dollars to the widely-discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that routinely blacklisted conservative organizations, such as Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty, as extremists without cause. In a sea of companies that have kowtowed to woke corporate activists, Apple stands apart as one of the worst actors in this space.
That’s why it came as a welcome surprise to hear Apple CEO Tim Cook address the changing climate around diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the company’s annual meeting yesterday. In response to a shareholder question my firm asked about DEI, Cook responded, &#8220;As the legal landscape around this issue evolves, we may need to make some changes to comply, but our north star of dignity and respect for everyone and our work to that end will never waver.” 
President Trump quickly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-says-apple-should-eliminate-diversity-policies-2025-02-26/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to Cook’s remark, noting on Truth Social that “Apple should get rid of DEI rules, not just make adjustments to them.”
That’s a big hint that things may be changing for Apple in the future. There’s almost no doubt this is Apple adapting to the new corporate world, where championing DEI is no longer a mainstay of corporate policy but a real source of legal and reputational risk from an administration that’s made rooting out discriminatory ‘diversity’ programs one of its primary missions. But that doesn’t mean we can’t treat this as a positive development for Apple’s political neutrality and fiduciary focus. Although Apple has opposed many efforts from conservative shareholders to get the company ‘back to neutral’ on politics, let’s take Tim Cook’s statement on its face. As someone in the weeds on fighting biased corporate policies, here are 4 ways Apple can bring its corporate policies back in line with being business first.
<h3>End Partnership With The Human Rights Campaign</h3>
If Apple publicly drops its partnership with the Human Rights Campaign and ends its participation in the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index, it might be the biggest sign that it’s serious about making changes to its public perception. For companies serious about their fiduciary duty, severing ties with the HRC is the first step, with companies like Walmart and Target having publicly walked away from the organization in the recent past. If Apple wants to drop a major PR liability overnight, throwing the HRC’s mailer in the trash and never responding again would be a good start.
<h3>Take Pro-Fiduciary Shareholders Seriously</h3>
Apple’s meeting yesterday was notable in that its entire shareholder agenda was from investors who aren’t ESG/DEI-aligned. 3 years ago, Left-wing, DEI aligned shareholders dominated Apple’s agenda and set the tone for who exactly was influencing the company. Now, the opposite influences are being felt and yet the company hasn’t exactly been forthright in responding to them.
The firm I work for, Bowyer Research, represented conservative shareholders at Apple’s annual meeting yesterday. We got to witness first-hand the company’s disingenuous dodging of not only questions about the company’s divisive charitable partnerships and lax approach to curbing online child exploitation, but the company’s coverage of transgender surgeries and hormone regimens for children (coverage that’s required as part of its HRC partnership). If the company is serious about its response to the large-scale vibe shift in corporate America, it could stand to actually listen to the shareholders and institutions that are fueling it.
<h3>Actually Ditch Discriminatory DEI Programs</h3>
This was the obvious one. It’s beyond clear that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in corporate America do more to create risk and politicize brands than they do to ensure political neutrality. Costco is a perfect example — its defense of DEI resulted in Al Sharpton making it the focus of his pro-DEI messaging (spoiler alert: Al Sharpton filming propaganda videos at your store is not what political neutrality looks like). IBM is another example — its alleged use of racial quotas is so egregious that it’s brought a <a href="https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-bailey-files-suit-against-ibm-for-violating-the-missouri-human-rights-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> from the Missouri Attorney General’s office, along with a shareholder proposal from the Heritage Foundation demanding transparency on the risks such diversity initiatives create. When other tech giants, including <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-dei-leader-email-2024-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microsoft</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/05/google-dei-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a>, begin slashing DEI initiatives, Cook’s admission about changes is an indicator that Apple can see which way the wind’s blowing.
Right before Christmas last year, Apple melted thousands of hearts with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-non-woke-pro-family-apple-ad-is-making-everyone-cry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wholesome, family-first ad</a> about how its AirPods Pro 2 made life more meaningful for the hearing-impaired. That kind of messaging acknowledges a simple truth: it’s Apple’s products, not its radical corporate partnerships or its donations to partisan groups, that have made the world a better place. If Apple accurately reads the room on corporate culture, Cook’s hint at “making changes” will mean tangible efforts to get the company out of divisive politics and back to making innovative products that create human flourishing in a way that no DEI program ever could.
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Isaac Willour is an award-winning journalist focusing on race, culture, and American conservatism, as well as a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. His work has been featured at outlets including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Opinion, C-SPAN, and The Daily Wire. He is a member of the Young Voices contributor program and can be found on X <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacWillour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@IsaacWillour</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A decade ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a stirring convocation address to the graduating class of George Washington University.
“The sidelines are not where you want to live your life,” Cook said. “The world needs you in the arena. There are problems that need to be solved. Injustices that need to be ended.”
Cook’s message was right but was missed by conservative shareholders, who for far too long sat on the sidelines while activists on the far-Left, like the radical Human Rights Campaign, Engine No. 1, and As You Sow, have staged a hostile takeover of Corporate America.
In the process, seemingly invincible brands like Bud Light, Target, and Disney bent the knee to these activists and ended up losing billions of dollars in value. Worse, a host of once-cherished American brands have been hijacked, transformed into tools wielded by ideologically driven forces. These actors pursue agendas that clash head-on with the core beliefs of the companies’ own shareholders, as well as the bedrock principles of free markets and constitutional liberties that define our nation.
That’s a problem. One might even call it an injustice that needs to be ended.
Your rights as a shareholder in many ways mirror your rights as a citizen. Like elected officials in Washington, D.C., or your state capital are accountable to their voters, leaders of publicly traded companies answer to their shareholders. That includes major stockholders like Cook, but also everyday Americans who invest in a variety of ways, including through a 401(k) or other investment products. So, just like at the ballot box, your vote matters at the annual shareholder meetings of the companies you own.
Yet, unlike the political process, many Americans simply don’t exercise their voting rights as shareholders. Instead, they delegate that right to activist investment or proxy advisors who often vote against their values. Like a football game where only one team takes the field, the score is as lopsided as you would expect.
Fringe groups pushing extreme ideas understand this all too well. Take the HRC’s current requirement that companies must pay for life-altering and experimental puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones for children as part of their healthcare plan to earn a coveted 100% on the so-called “Corporate Equality Index.”
The HRC <a href="https://reports.hrc.org/corporate-equality-index-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touts</a> 765 businesses — including Apple — that bow to this demand, but it couldn’t be further out of step with most shareholders. Nearly 7 in 10 Americans <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/05/trans-poll-gop-politics-laws/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oppose</a> puberty blockers for young children and the U.S. Supreme Court is currently <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/supreme-court-decide-whether-states-can-protect-children-experimental-medical/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering</a> whether to uphold a Tennessee law protecting children from this practice, with similar laws in a total of 27 states likely affected by the decision.
Thankfully, shareholders who represent mainstream American values are finally taking Cook’s advice and getting in the game. Working with dozens of values-aligned investors, financial advisors, corporate engagement advisors, and state financial officers that together represent over $250 billion in assets under management, Alliance Defending Freedom and Inspire Investing are leading the charge with a coalition that has filed over 68 shareholder resolutions at over 50 corporations this year alone.
For the first time, we are setting the agenda for corporate America. And that’s clearest to see at Cook’s Apple, where all four resolutions on the proxy ballot for the company’s Feb. 25 annual meeting come from our values-aligned shareholder allies.
Inspire Investing filed a resolution calling on Apple executives to report to their shareholders the impact of partnering with divisive groups like the HRC and the <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-everything-thats-wrong-with-liberalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highly discredited</a> Southern Poverty Law Center, which played a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-12-04-the-fbis-breach-of-religious-freedom-the-weaponization-of-law-enforcement-against-catholic-americans.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prominent</a> role in the FBI’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=aEyd3ErNZ04" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeting</a> of Roman Catholics and parents protecting their kids by speaking out at school board meetings during the previous administration.
Other resolutions include a call for transparency on ethical AI data collection and usage, as well as a directive for Apple to stop discriminating against employees under the financially and legally risky banner of DEI policies from the National Center for Public Policy Research. Meanwhile, Bowyer Research worked with the American Family Association to <a href="https://wng.org/opinions/forbidden-fruit-1739862491">file</a> a proposal asking Apple leadership to explain why it removed an iOS software function designed to identify child sex abuse material — a decision that has led company leaders to admit Apple has become “the greatest platform for distributing child porn, etc.”
Apple should at least see the merit in this proposal, but instead, they are pushing shareholders to reject it — and even tried to dodge accountability altogether by begging the SEC to keep it off their proxy statement. The SEC said no, thanks to ADF’s intervention.
A decade ago, Tim Cook told graduates, “There are problems that need to be solved. Injustices that need to be ended.” Today, the injustice lies in Apple and other corporate giants ignoring shareholders, aligning with divisive groups, and silencing dissent — all while straying from the values that built them.
Freedom and free market loving shareholders are done watching from the sidelines. We’re in the arena now, holding Cook and his peers to their own call: end the injustices, starting with providing accountability to your shareholders.
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Jeremy Tedesco (@Jeremy_Tedesco) is senior counsel, senior vice president of corporate engagement at <a href="http://www.adflegal.org/?utm_source=wallstreetjournal&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ADFLegal">@ADFLegal</a>). 
Robert Netzly (@RobertNetzly) is CEO of Inspire Investing (@InspireAdvisor).
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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China has released a brand new artificial intelligence model. It&#8217;s called DeepSeek, and some people are comparing this Chinese technical advancement to Russia&#8217;s Sputnik moment back in 1957 when Russia launched a satellite into orbit, shocking America&#8217;s technological cadre.
DeepSeek is an artificial intelligence company that was trained on chips far less sophisticated than the Nvidia chips that have been the driver of the AI revolution.
To review: Artificial intelligence has progressed tremendously over the course of the last three to four years. For example, ChatGPT is basically good at virtually everything, and it is only one step removed from being able to progress even further in the real world.
You can prompt ChatGPT, for instance, to put together a travel itinerary for any location on the globe. Right now, a “book” button is only visible, but soon, it will be active; you will be able to actually book. It is going to change how we do our jobs in many different industries.
It was assumed that America had a massive lead in the AI industry. Why? Because AI works with incredible levels of data to use very sophisticated microchips, typically created by Nvidia and then produced at TSMC, which is an actual semiconductor factor in Taiwan.
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Firms like META have been investing billions of dollars into AI, OpenAI, and Google. All of these various companies have been spending billions of dollars buying these Nvidia microchips that are designed to process huge quantities of data because that&#8217;s how AI actually works — to crunch as much data as humanly possible.
It works through a matrix that determines which words in any given sentence are the most important, and then it predicts what the next word in a sentence is going to be. This is why you can prompt ChatGPT to write a joke about a duck in the style of Charles Dickens.
It does all that simply by cramming extraordinary amounts of data, which takes enormous amounts of energy and numbers of sophisticated microchips. 
At least, that&#8217;s what everyone thought — until a little bit earlier this week. China released DeepSeek, which is apparently just as sophisticated as ChatGPT but costs a fraction of the cost to produce. Instead of using Nvidia sophisticated microchips, it uses less sophisticated microchips.
That&#8217;s the reason why Nvidia, which had been moved up to a trillion-dollar market cap and had grown massively in the last three or four years, dropped almost 20% in the stock market because suddenly it appears the barrier to entry in AI has dropped precipitously as well.
It is less expensive than was originally thought to develop a very sophisticated AI. This is why a huge number of stocks that were tied into American AI dropped as well.
There&#8217;s a much more competitive sphere now.
It’s quite possible that AI was being overvalued, that all of these various companies were being overvalued, that the situation resembles the tech bubble in the late 90’s, that a huge amount of money is being invested into AI. But it&#8217;s not clear how much revenue is actually going to be generated by AI in the real world.
This happens very often when new technology creates a speculative bubble. The market tends to wipe out a lot of the speculation. What then remains are the long-lasting gains from the technology.
The dot-com bubble, for example, did not end the internet. Instead, the dot-com bubble was created by enthusiasm for an entirely new wave of products, and it turned out that a lot of that enthusiasm was put in the wrong places. But it didn&#8217;t mean the internet didn&#8217;t transform life. It did.
And the same thing is going to be true of AI.
A lot of the current, highly valued stocks may be overvalued at this point. Many of these companies that were assumed to have an oligopoly and enormous power in the air market may not have as much power as they thought.
America needs to win the battle for AI.
DeepSeek monitors all your data. DeepSeek is doing the same thing as all other various Chinese companies: mining your data to an extraordinary extent, the same way TikTok is a Chinese psyop that is designed to draw enormous amounts of American data to it.
DeepSeek’s user agreement <a href="https://chat.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20Privacy%20Policy.html">admits</a>, “We automatically collect certain information from you when you use the Services, including internet or other network activity information such as your IP address, unique device identifiers, and cookies. We collect certain device and network connection information when you access the Service.”
President Trump spoke on Monday and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/deep-seek-ai-markets-nvidia/">stated</a> that the news regarding DeepSeek was “a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.”
After praising American scientists, he said the situation could be “very much a positive development. … Instead of spending billions and billions, you&#8217;ll spend less and you&#8217;ll come up with hopefully the same solution. Under the Trump administration, we&#8217;re going to unleash all our tech companies and we&#8217;re going to dominate the future like never before.” 
This is correct. When the cost of actually being able to participate in this market goes down, more innovation and competition will ensue, which is good.
But if we are in competition with China, which we certainly are, then we need to be using every resource at our disposal and not hamstringing our ability to compete with the Chinese by putting tariffs on semiconductors, which drives up prices for precisely the companies we need to actually outcompete the Chinese on this basis.
American ingenuity nearly always wins in the end.
It just needs to be turned loose.

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Last night, President Biden gave his farewell address.
On his way out, he decided to give an Eisenhower-like warning. Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address, famously inveighed against the military industrial complex.
I happen to be a believer that Eisenhower’s remark was one of the dumber statements he ever made. The military industrial complex theory, which was pushed by a Marxist-leaning sociologist named C. Wright Mills, says that the defense industry drives America toward war. It is a fool&#8217;s way of explaining how foreign policy actually works.
But somehow, Biden found an even bigger fool’s way to explain American policy.
On his way out, he warned about a tech oligarchy. Let&#8217;s be clear. One of the key reasons Biden became president in 2020 was because of the tech oligarchy working with his people — shutting down, for example, the Hunter Biden laptop story so he could win.
It turns out that billionaires disproportionately support Biden and his party. But Biden decided he would weigh in about the supposed “tech oligarchy.”
What Biden really means is that the people he wants to run the country are career bureaucrats and politicians who have never run a popsicle stand.
There are two alternatives. Either the people are going to be left to their own devices to actually hire people, build businesses, and run their own lives — or Joe Biden will run their lives.
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Biden has never worked a real job in his entire life. He&#8217;s been politicking since the age of 29. He wasn’t even old enough to be in the Senate when he was elected to the Senate. And now, he&#8217;s 173-years-old, and he inveighed against the oligarchy in which he has been a key cog for his entire adult life.
He <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2025/01/15/remarks-by-president-biden-in-a-farewell-address-to-the-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
<blockquote>Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
We see the consequences all across America. And we’ve seen it before, more than a century ago. But the American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts.
They didn’t punish the wealthy. They just made the wealthy pay the by — play by the rules everybody else had to. Workers won rights to earn their fair share. You know, they were dealt into the deal, and it helped put us on the path to building the largest middle class and the most prosperous century any nation the world has ever seen, and we’ve got to do that again.</blockquote>
Biden’s idiotic notion that we have to break the modern robber barons, that it&#8217;s people like Elon Musk and the tech bros who are really the problem, is garbage. 
Who do you think is creating the productivity, the innovation, and the jobs that Americans have? It isn&#8217;t Joe Biden. It isn&#8217;t the government. This is the key conflict of vision between people like Biden and those of us who actually like free markets, free enterprise, and freedom in general. Biden believes that by freedom, we mean the government should allocate to you a particular role in life.
When those of us on the other side refer to freedom, we mean that we should all be able to rise and fall on our own merits, and those actions generate positive externalities for everyone.
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It’s repugnant to listen to Biden whine about the oligarchy while he himself has never produced a positive thing in his entire life. Then, he inveighs against people who actually do the producing, who actually do the innovation, who make life better for literally hundreds of millions of people.
Meanwhile, he&#8217;s been a complete leech on the ass of society for five decades, talking about the oligarchs.
You know who is truly an oligarch? Somebody who uses unearned power, somebody who is given power by the American people to crack down on the freedom of others for redistributive purposes. That person is much more of an oligarchy than whatever supposed oligarchy Biden’s talked of.
What a terrible old man.
I cannot wait for him to be out of the White House.

President Biden Delivers Farewell Address To The Nation

Biden’s Farewell Address: Four Years Too Late

Biden's Farewell Address: Four Years Too Late

Joe Biden

Presidency

Social Media

President Donald Trump’s inauguration is just around the corner. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $1 million to the inauguration fund. Jeff Bezos and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman did the same. Zuckerberg, however, has gone further, actually announcing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-axes-dei-programs-in-the-lead-up-to-trumps-inauguration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">real policy change</a> that the incoming Trump administration will approve of.
Many conservatives are dismissive of Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta will no longer censor political speech, mute conversations about hot-button social issues, and discontinue its egregious “fact-checking” program. They ought not to be. I believe the change is real and the motivation genuine.
Meta’s censorship sins run very, very deep.
As early as 2015, Meta (then Facebook) was putting its thumb on the scale in favor of Left-wing politicians. It interfered in the 2016 election by suppressing stories critical of Hillary Clinton. In 2018, the company was actively working to prevent Republican candidates from communicating with their constituents. In 2020, it was secretly colluding with the Justice Department to keep the American people from learning about the Hunter Biden laptop. That action alone may have cost Donald Trump his reelection.
On issue after issue, Facebook has deliberately attempted to suppress free speech. Conservatives questioning COVID and its origins have found themselves censored, even banned from the platform. Ditto for anyone questioning climate change. Ditto for anyone questioning child mutilation.
<ul>
<li>Condemn illegal immigration — censored.</li>
<li>Promote the pro-life cause — censored.</li>
<li>State that Biden was putting America into a recession — censored.</li>
<li>Object to federally-funded crack pipes — censored.</li>
<li>Criticize the “Zuckerbucks” scheme to hijack local elections — adios.</li>
</ul>
The list is seemingly endless. At <a href="https://www.mrc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the MRC</a> we have tabulated 1,725 times Meta has censored conservatives. Tens of thousands of conservatives have been banned — and that includes the president of the United States.
Some have suggested that the president-elect put the fear of the Lord into Zuckerberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-zuckerberg-have-dinner-together-at-mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">when they met</a> at Mar-a-Lago recently, and perhaps that’s true. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to simply conclude that Meta’s “about-face” this week was motivated merely out of fear of reprisals.
Consider: Zuckerberg could have resolved the problem by just putting an end to it. No video, no public humiliation. Just a four word memo to his staff: “You censor, you’re out.” It was as simple as not giving cause for future complaints.
But that’s not what he did. He released a video he knew would become front page news nationwide. In it, he unequivocally admitted conservatives had been right all along; unequivocally acknowledged Meta had violated the public trust by suppressing free speech; and unequivocally committed to a new policy championing the First Amendment.
He also fired his entire so-called “fact-checking” operation. These were the hardened leftists responsible for the bulk of that fascistic censorship. They were the fuel behind the killing machine of any user’s account that posted stories about election interference, Joe Biden’s mental acuity, or the origins of the Wuhan virus.
But then he added something else. He announced he is moving the remainder of the content team out of Palo Alto, which he once described to me as the “heart of leftism in America,” and into the heart of freedom — Texas.
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Conservatives should consider that if there were anything like a Christmas card list in Palo Alto, his name has been scratched off. In the eyes of Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg is a traitor.
Let’s be clear: Zuckerberg is a leftist, of the hard Left variety. So why put out that video? Because one can be on the far-Left of the political spectrum and still be a champion of free speech. Ironically, it has historically been this community, driven by libertine impulses, that most embraced free speech.
I have met and corresponded with Zuckerberg several times. I believe he’s in this camp. I also believe that within the Meta universe, there will be plenty of employees who will try to undermine him, just as Twitter employees tried with Elon Musk. Censorship will continue; leftists who understand the power of social media are not about to relinquish it. But maybe, just maybe, it will be the exception to the rule. Maybe, just maybe, the rules have changed.
Time will tell. Trust, but verify.
But let the conversation continue. If you thought Meta was bad, it has been angelic compared to Google. That company is out of control with its efforts to undermine democracy and Congressional hearings are in order to investigate their activities. TikTok is a tool of the Chinese government, the greatest threat to the United States, and has no business being in business in our country.
There are many other ventures on the rise in the emerging AI world that will certainly threaten conservatives’ ability to communicate in the public square. All must be confronted.
But for the moment, let’s consider that maybe, just maybe, Mark Zuckerberg has done something good.
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L. Brent Bozell III is the founder and president of the Media Research Center and founder of the Free Speech Alliance.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Social Media App Photo Illustration

Why Facebook’s About-Face Is Turning Heads

Censorship

Facebook

Free Speech

Leftists

Media Research Center

Social Media Censorship

Last week the news broke that Meta — the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and half the internet — claims it will be pulling back drastically from its censorship policies. Free speech will reign again on Facebook, supposedly. The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, appeared on Joe Rogan a couple of days ago to elaborate on this decision. Much of what he says in the conversation — along with the entire conversation itself — would have been unthinkable four or five years ago. But times are rapidly changing.
Specifically, in the interview, Zuckerberg affirmed that there&#8217;s nothing wrong with a masculine culture in a workplace — and that, in fact, a lot of companies would benefit from it. Imagine that. Watch:
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Eight years ago, these are the kinds of ideas that would&#8217;ve — and if you recall the case of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fired-google-engineer-james-damore-dropped-his-lawsuit-against-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Damore</a> — did get rank-and-file employees fired at Google. And now the head of a major Big Tech company is saying it.
Of course, the obvious response to this interview is that Zuckerberg doesn&#8217;t actually believe any of this. He&#8217;s just saying it because Trump won the election, and he wants to cozy up with power. And that&#8217;s almost certainly true. But it doesn&#8217;t fully capture what&#8217;s going on — which is that there&#8217;s also been a major shift in American culture this time around. After all, Trump won the election back in 2016, too. And Zuckerberg didn&#8217;t say anything like this. Instead his companies reacted by entrenching themselves even deeper on the Left. Now the exact opposite is happening.
In the interview, Zuckerberg suggested that some of Facebook&#8217;s censorship was the result of pressure by the Biden administration, although he claims to have resisted some of it. Watch:
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Of course, it wasn&#8217;t just &#8220;vaccine side effects&#8221; that the Biden administration wanted Facebook to censor. They also wanted Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, for obvious reasons. It was a damning account of the Biden family&#8217;s corruption, and no one could really dispute its accuracy because it came directly from Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop. And Facebook went along with that, too, on the ridiculous theory that the laptop was really some secret scheme by Russian intelligence.
It goes without saying that Facebook could have gone public with these concerns at any time in the last several years. They didn&#8217;t need to wait until Trump won a second term. So, no, we shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;trust&#8221; Mark Zuckerberg, now that he&#8217;s made a calculation that telling the truth is in his best interests. He had a chance to do the right thing when it would have required some measure of courage to do so. Although not that much, considering he was and is a multi-billionaire. That provides you a lot of cover that most of us don’t have. But Zuckerberg waited until now. 
There’s a lot of this going around right now. People who are seeing the light and coming out against wokeness, now that wokeness is a punch line and has no political power and little Cultural power. I welcome these people to Team Sanity. But I don’t trust them, and I certainly won’t congratulate them.
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At the same time, again, Zuckerberg&#8217;s shift is a reflection of a broader change in the culture. And it&#8217;s a shift that&#8217;s quite dramatic in some respects. Here&#8217;s how the New York Times is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuckerberg-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> on some of the changes at Meta, for example: 
<blockquote>The company removed the transgender and nonbinary &#8216;themes&#8217; on its Messenger chat app. &#8230; That same day at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said.</blockquote>
Yes, tampons have been removed from the men&#8217;s bathrooms at Meta. Presumably the tampons have also been removed from the virtual bathrooms in the Metaverse too, although I don&#8217;t have a &#8220;Meta Quest&#8221; VR headset, so I can&#8217;t verify that at the moment. This is a sudden change that happened virtually overnight, after years of having tampons in the men&#8217;s bathroom. The CEO decides one day to end it. And it ends.
Why did the men’s bathrooms ever have tampons to begin with? Why did he ever think that was a good idea? Did Zuckerberg believe that men could have periods and then see the light after reading a biology textbook? I don’t think so. He knew it was absurd the whole time.
And guess what? There have been no riots at Meta over this change. There have been no massive protests or mass resignations. The Metaverse hasn&#8217;t collapsed. That&#8217;s because everyone at Meta — including the supposedly &#8220;trans&#8221; employees — know that reality is not subjective. They know that men do not need tampons. And now that an adult has told them the truth, they&#8217;re accepting it because they have no other choice.
That&#8217;s all it really takes for a return to sanity. And it&#8217;s happening more and more often.
To give another example — recently a federal court in Kentucky handed the Biden administration a major defeat in a Title IX case. In case you&#8217;re not familiar with Title IX, it&#8217;s a law that prevents sex discrimination in educational programs, including sports, that receive any kind of federal assistance. The Biden administration unilaterally tried to re-interpret Title IX so that it prevents discrimination on the basis of so-called &#8220;gender identity.&#8221; Their rule would have required teachers to use students&#8217; preferred pronouns, among other demands.
From a legal perspective, the Biden administration and trans activists thought they had a winning case. And that&#8217;s because an earlier Supreme Court ruling had held, by a 6-3 vote, that a different provision of civil rights law — Title VII — prohibited discrimination on the basis of so-called &#8220;gender identity&#8221; in the workplace. Gorsuch and Roberts sided with the Leftist judges to come up with that ruling.
But last week, a federal judge in Kentucky held that the same logic doesn&#8217;t apply to Title IX, because Title IX is explicitly focused on sex discrimination — and no other form of discrimination. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25483131-order-in-title-ix-case/?q=eviscerates&amp;mode=document#document/p7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This</a> is from the judge&#8217;s ruling: &#8220;The entire point of Title 9 is to prevent discrimination based on sex. Throwing gender identity into the mix eviscerates the statute and renders it largely meaningless.&#8221;
This ruling will obviously be appealed, and work its way up the courts. But as it stands, it could lay the groundwork for a new Supreme Court ruling — one that rejects any attempt to conflate &#8220;sex&#8221; and &#8220;gender&#8221; within the meaning of the law.
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A ruling like that would&#8217;ve been hard to imagine a few years ago. But it&#8217;s not hard to imagine anymore. That&#8217;s because, even in places like California — some of the most Left-wing places in the country — there are clear signs that people are tired of this insanity. Consider the eruption of anger over California&#8217;s DEI policies and general incompetence in the wake of these historic fires, which still aren&#8217;t under control.
The corporate press is trying to run the same familiar narrative, where they blame racism and climate change. For example, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-pacific-palisades-pasadena-altadena-inequality-63ea76d186740359f7f5dd188896354f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here&#8217;s the AP</a>: 
<blockquote>The California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake. .. The fires also burned through a remarkable haven for generations of Black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices elsewhere. They have been communities of racial and economic diversity, where many people own their own homes.</blockquote>
The reaction to this article online has been, as you might expect, universal mockery and derision. People aren&#8217;t persuaded by this anymore. Well, people never were persuaded by it. The difference is that now nobody pretends to be. No one talks like this, unless they&#8217;re a journalist for an outlet like the AP. The rest of us are sharing clips like this one, featuring the chief of the Los Angeles Department of Water &amp; Power. Watch:
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She says: &#8220;The #1 thing that attracted me to this role&#8230; It’s important for me that everything we do is with an equity lens and social justice.&#8221;
It&#8217;s reminiscent of the aftermath of the Maui fires, when a top official <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/hawaii-official-worried-about-equity-over-water/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked</a> about how access to water should involve &#8220;conversations about equity.&#8221; These are the kinds of clips that have quickly surfaced in the wake of the California fires. And they&#8217;re surfacing because people are tired of DEI hires running their cities into the ground. People are realizing that lives are at stake now.
That&#8217;s especially obvious after the discovery that a key reservoir was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">empty</a> in the Pacific Palisades when the fires began. From the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Times</a>: 
<blockquote>Officials said that the [Reservoir] had been closed since about February for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117-million-gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades for nearly a year.</blockquote>
Keep in mind, that&#8217;s the L.A. Times with that exclusive reporting. That&#8217;s the same paper that called Larry Elder &#8220;the black face of white supremacy&#8221; not too long ago. Then (like Jeff Bezos), the Times&#8217; owner withheld the paper&#8217;s endorsement of Kamala Harris, so they&#8217;d focus more on the news. Now they&#8217;re exposing genuine misconduct and incompetence, no matter how embarrassing and damaging it may be for California&#8217;s Democrats.
You won&#8217;t find a clearer sign that wokeness — meaning the suspension of reality to appease the preferred demographic groups of the Democratic Party — is coming to an end. It may be coming to an end in part because of self-interested political actors like Mark Zuckerberg. But it&#8217;s ending, one way or another, because people are tired of it. When Donald Trump won in 2016, that wasn&#8217;t the case. But if there&#8217;s one overriding reason for optimism for Trump&#8217;s second term, it&#8217;s that this time around, no one — not even Silicon Valley mega-corporations like Meta — is pretending to take this nonsense seriously anymore.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Interview On The Circuit

Wokeness Is Dying

Joe Rogan

Los Angeles

Mark Zuckerberg

Speaking with podcast host Joe Rogan, Silicon Valley billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen accused the Democrats and the Biden administration of weaponizing executive agencies to pressure financial institutions to “debank” companies politically opposed to them.
“Debanking” a person or business means being kicked out of the financial system.
“The First Amendment says the government cannot censor American citizens,” Andreessen began. “And so, what they do is if you want to censor American citizens in the government, if you&#8217;re smart, you don&#8217;t do that. What you do is you fund an outside organization and then you have them do it.”
“We have this thing called the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, CFPB, which was the – it&#8217;s sort of Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s personal agency that she gets to control,” he continued. “And it&#8217;s an independent agency that just gets to run and do whatever it wants, right? And if you read the Constitution, like, there is no such thing as an independent agency. And yet there it is.”
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“Basically, it terrorizes financial institutions,” he explained. “Prevent new competition, new startups that want to compete with the big banks &#8230; just by terrorizing anybody who tries to do anything new in financial services.”
When Rogan asked for an example, Andressen answered:
<blockquote>
Debanking. This is where a lot of the debanking comes from, is these agencies. So, debanking is when you as either a person or your company are literally kicked out of the banking system. &#8230; My partner, Ben’s father, has been debanked. &#8230; for having the wrong politics. For saying, “unacceptable things” under current banking regulations.”
</blockquote>
“Under current banking regulations, after all the reforms of the last 20 years, there’s now a category called a ‘politically exposed person,&#8217;” he said. “PEP. And if you are a PEP, you are required by financial regulators to kick them out of your bank. You’re not allowed to have them. “
“But what if you&#8217;re politically on the Left?” Rogan asked.
“That&#8217;s fine,” Andreesen replied.
“So, no one on the Left gets debanked?” Rogan asked incredulously.
“I haven&#8217;t heard of a single instance of anyone on the Left getting debanked,” Andreessen answered. “You get kicked out of your bank account. You get kicked out of the — you can&#8217;t do credit card transactions.”
“This is where the government and the companies get intertwined,” he continued. “And back to your fascism point, which is there&#8217;s a constitutional amendment that says the government can&#8217;t restrict your speech, but there&#8217;s no constitutional amendment that says the government can&#8217;t debank you, right? And so, if they can&#8217;t do the one thing, they do the other thing. And then they don&#8217;t have to debank you. They just have to put pressure on the private company banks to do it. And then the private company banks do it because they&#8217;re expected to. But the government gets to say, &#8216;We didn&#8217;t do it. It was the private company that did it.’”
“It&#8217;s this sleight of hand that happens &#8230; it&#8217;s a privatized sanctions regime that lets bureaucrats do to American citizens the same thing that we do to Iran, just kick you out of the financial system,” he explained. “And so, this has been happening to all the crypto entrepreneurs in the last four years. This has been happening to a lot of the fintech entrepreneurs, anybody trying to start any kind of new banking service because they&#8217;re trying to protect the big banks.”
“And then this has been happening, by the way, also in legal fields of economic activity that they don&#8217;t like,” he recalled. “And so, a lot of this started about 15 years ago with this thing called Operation Truck Point, where they decided, as marijuana started to become legal, as prostitution started to become legal, and then guns, which there&#8217;s always a fight about, under the Obama administration, they started to debank legal marijuana businesses, escort businesses, and then gun shops, just like your gun manufacturers. And just like you&#8217;re done, you&#8217;re out of the banking system. And so, if you&#8217;re running a medical marijuana dispensary in 2012, guess what? You&#8217;re doing your business all in cash because you literally can&#8217;t get a bank account. You can&#8217;t get a Visa terminal. You can&#8217;t process transactions. You can&#8217;t do payroll. You can&#8217;t do direct deposit. You can&#8217;t get insurance. You&#8217;ve been sanctioned, right? None of that stuff is available.”
He turned to the Biden-Harris administration. “And then this administration extended that concept to apply it to tech founders, crypto founders, and then just generally political opponents. &#8230; Operation Truck Point 1.0 was 15 years ago against the pot and the guns. Truck Point 2.0 is primarily against their political enemies and then to their disfavored tech startups. And it&#8217;s hit the tech world. We’ve had like 30 founders debanked in the last four years. This is one of the reasons why we ended up supporting Trump. It’s like we just can’t live in this world.”
“We can&#8217;t live in a world where somebody starts a company that&#8217;s a completely legal thing and then they literally like get sanctioned, right, and embargoed by the United States government through a completely unaccountable – by the way, no due process,” he said. “None of this is written down. There&#8217;s no rules. There&#8217;s no court. There&#8217;s no decision process. There&#8217;s no appeal. Who do you appeal to, right? Like who do you go to to get your bank account back, right? And then there&#8217;s also the civil asset forfeiture side of it &#8230; that happens to people in a lot of places now who get arrested and all of a sudden the state takes their money. &#8230; There will be some investigation into safe deposit boxes, and the next thing you know, the feds have seized all the contents of the safe deposit boxes, and that stuff never gets returned.”
“When Trump says the ‘deep state,’ the way we would describe it is, it&#8217;s administrative power. It&#8217;s political power being administered not through legislation. So there&#8217;s no defined law that covers this. It&#8217;s not through regulation. There&#8217;s nothing you can do– you can&#8217;t go see a regulator to fix this,” he said. “It&#8217;s not through any kind of court judgment. It&#8217;s just raw power. It&#8217;s just raw administrative power. It&#8217;s the government or politicians just deciding that things are going to be a certain way and then they just apply pressure until they get it.”
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Key Speakers At The TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 Summit

Billionaire Tech Investor Says Biden Admin Pressured Financial Institutions To ‘Debank’ Opponents

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Billionaire Mark Cuban, an ardent foe of former President Trump, attributed the support Trump is getting from the moguls of Silicon Valley to their belief that his presidency would increase the value of bitcoin and make it the global currency.
Elon Musk this week announced he would donate roughly $45 million a month to America PAC, which supports Trump. “America PAC has also received donations from Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Sequoia Capital partners Doug Leone and Shaun Maguire, Valor Equity Partners CEO Antonio Gracias, and crypto investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss,” The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4777558-mark-cuban-silicon-valley-trump-bitcoin-elon-musk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
“Here is a contrary opinion on the emergence of Silicon Valley support for former President Trump,” Cuban speculated. “Which like all my opinions on here, probably won’t be popular. It’s a bitcoin play. Not because the former President is a far stronger proponent of crypto. That’s nice. But doesn’t really impact the price of crypto. It makes it easier to operate a crypto business because of the inevitable, and required, changes at the SEC. What will drive the price of BTC is lower tax rates and tariffs, which if history is any guide (and it’s not always ), will be inflationary. Combine that with global uncertainty as to the geopolitical role of the USA, and the impact on the US Dollar as a reserve currency, and you can’t align the stars any better for a BTC price acceleration.”
“How high can the price go,” he continued. “Way higher than you think. Remember, the market for BTC is global. And the supply has a final limit of 21m BTC, with unlimited fractionalization. Keep that in mind as you consider what happens if because of geopolitical uncertainty and the decline of the dollar as the reserve currency, BTC becomes a “safe haven” globally. Which means that BTC could be what countries and all of us look to buy as a means to protect our savings. Crazy ? It already happens in countries facing hyperinflation.  And if things really go further than we can imagine today (and I’m not saying they will. Just that this has a possibility somewhere above zero) , then BTC becomes exactly what the Maxis envision. A global currency.”
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Part 1 Here is a contrary opinion on the emergence of Silicon Valley support for former President Trump. Which like all my opinions on here, probably won’t be popular. 
It’s a bitcoin play. 
Not because the former President is a far stronger proponent of crypto. That’s nice.…
&mdash; Mark Cuban (@mcuban) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1813591281970348264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Part 2 How high can the price go. Way higher than you think. Remember, the market for BTC is global. And the supply has a final limit of 21m BTC, with unlimited fractionalization. 
Keep that in mind as you consider what happens if because of geopolitical uncertainty and the…
&mdash; Mark Cuban (@mcuban) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1813595448151531784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cuban has been worried that the Biden administration’s attitude toward cryptocurrency could hurt him in the November election. In May, he tweeted, “If @joebiden loses, there is a good chance you will be able to thank @GaryGensler and the @NewYork_SEC.  Crypto is a mainstay with younger and independent voters. Gensler HAS NOT PROTECTED A SINGLE INVESTOR AGAINST FRAUD   All he has done is make it nearly impossible for legitimate crypto companies to operate, killing who knows how many businesses and ruining who knows how many entrepreneurs.”
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If <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joebiden</a> loses, there is a good chance you will be able to thank <a href="https://twitter.com/GaryGensler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GaryGensler</a> and the <a href="https://twitter.com/NewYork_SEC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewYork_SEC</a> Crypto is a mainstay with younger and independent voters. Gensler HAS NOT PROTECTED A SINGLE INVESTOR AGAINST FRAUD 
All he has done is make it nearly impossible for… <a href="https://t.co/uBKupxLhS9">https://t.co/uBKupxLhS9</a>
&mdash; Mark Cuban (@mcuban) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1789037772050702824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘It’s A Bitcoin Play’: Mark Cuban On Why Silicon Valley Is Supporting Trump

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A top Silicon Valley venture capitalist announced on Thursday that he was donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> following his conviction in the controversial hush-money case in Manhattan.
Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, posted on X that he donated $300,000 to the political operation backing Trump and explained in a lengthy statement his political shift in recent years.
&#8220;I’m prepared to lose friends,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Back in 2016 I had drunk the media Kool-Aid and was scared out of my mind about Trump. As such I donated to Hilary Clinton’s campaign and voted for her. By 2020 I was disillusioned and didn’t vote – I didn’t like either option.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, in 2024, I believe this is one of the most important elections of my lifetime, and I’m supporting Trump,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I know that I’ll lose friends for this. Some will refuse to do business with me. The media will probably demonize me, as they have so many others before me. But despite this, I still believe it’s the right thing to do.&#8221;
The physics PhD said that he refuses to live in a society where people are afraid to speak their minds.
He said that his background in national security initially made him fearful of Trump because of how Russia appeared to back in him 2016.
&#8220;I was wrong, and Russia miscalculated,&#8221; he said. &#8220;President Trump turned out to be a master of foreign policy and particularly strong towards Russia.&#8221;
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He explained that when Trump addressed NATO several years ago, Trump &#8220;told Germany that they&#8217;re a) owned by Russia via their energy dependence b) financing Russia&#8217;s war machine by buying their energy c) not investing enough in defense, investing only 1% of GDP, which was below the 2% NATO commitment, meanwhile the US was investing 4.2% of GDP. And yet the world said he&#8217;s owned by Russia?&#8221;
&#8220;For other Trump foreign policy wins, he: a) signed the Abraham Accords b) successfully put Iran in the penalty box, which the Biden administration immediately unwound and c) he helped India see the dangers of having their comms networks controlled by China resulting in Huawei and TikTok bans there,&#8221; he continued.
He said that Biden&#8217;s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan was part of a &#8220;radicalization&#8221; process that he went through that brought him to the center of American politics.
&#8220;We gave up one of the most strategic air bases in the world, and arguably stability in Kabul, for political gain &#8211; to be able to say that President Biden ended the War in Afghanistan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we did it in the most incompetent manner possible, literally with people falling from our airplanes. Everyone I have spoken with that served in Afghanistan knows this.&#8221;
&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t just Afghanistan, I believe that the Biden administration has had some of the worst foreign policy in decades,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And this has manifested in two major Wars breaking out during their administration, with Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and Iran&#8217;s proxy attack against Israel. Was the timing just bad luck? I don&#8217;t believe so. I believe that a weak America leads to a chaotic world.&#8221;
He continued:
<blockquote>The most damaging foreign policy has been the Biden administration&#8217;s approach to Iran. Biden resuscitated Obama&#8217;s braindead Iran doctrine. Somehow believing that the theocratic Islamic Regime could be turned towards the West.
But it&#8217;s much worse than this. After Hamas&#8217; attack against Israel on October 7th, Iran took credit for planning the attack publicly. Moreover, Iran was so bold that their proxies carried out over 300 attacks against US bases and Naval ships. Many of the attacks haven&#8217;t been disclosed or publicized. At least 4 US soldiers have been killed in these attacks. And yet somehow despite this, the Biden administration has been rewarding Iran by unfreezing their funds, mourning the death of President Raisi and hamstringing Israel in its proxy battle.
This level of weakness is unprecedented in my opinion. The US has been kissing the ring of its attacker, literally while attacks against our Armed Forces are carried out. If you start looking, it&#8217;s hard to see anything other than Iranian foreign influence in the Biden administration, such as what Semafor reported on, and which was effectively buried by our mainstream media.
The Biden administration has been a dream come true for foreign adversaries, and a nightmare for US allies. Trusting of enemies, and fickle with friends.</blockquote>
He posted that as a &#8220;staunch Israel supporter and also Zionist,&#8221; he has been appalled by Biden&#8217;s policy toward the country, saying that it is an &#8220;unforgivably disastrous policy.&#8221;
He said that he is sick of the double standards that the political Left has and he views the weaponization of the justice system against Trump as dangerous.
He said that he agrees with Republicans on most domestic issues now, including immigration, because the quality of life in Republican strongholds is significantly better than it is in Democrat enclaves. However, he said he does not agree with Republicans on the issue of abortion.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Explains How He Went From Clinton In 2016 To Trump In 2024: ‘I’m Prepared To Lose Friends’

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Tech adviser Jacob Helberg, who has donated large sums to Democrats, has joined a wave of big money donors rejecting President Joe Biden and supporting former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in 2024.
Helberg has donated $1 million to Trump’s re-election effort, making the tech adviser one of the largest financial backers of Trump’s bid to win back the White House in November. Just four years ago, Helberg was using his money and influence to support Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s doomed campaign for president, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/14/trump-donors-tech-jacob-helberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
Helberg is one of a cadre of high-powered Silicon Valley businessmen who have warmed to Trump recently.
“The social cost of supporting Trump isn’t as great as it was,” Helberg said of Silicon Valley society, many members of which see that “Trump was right on a lot of make-or-break issues for America.”
After the Post reported Helberg&#8217;s contribution to the Trump campaign, Helberg posted on X: &#8220;This one&#8217;s for Israel.&#8221;
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This one’s for Israel. 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/YR1lb0aM9Y">https://t.co/YR1lb0aM9Y</a>
&mdash; Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobhelberg/status/1790720385874305263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Helberg has given $844,600 to the Trump 47 joint fundraising committee, joining a small group of donors who have maxed out their contribution to the Trump group. By March, at least 20 others had given the limit to the group as well, according to FEC filings reviewed by the Post.
Helberg and Trump agree on a number of issues, but mainly China. The tech adviser and the former president bonded recently at Trump’s Florida resort Mar-a-Lago over the need to take an adversarial approach to China on trade, Tiktok, and other issues.
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Helberg’s drift toward Trump is part of a trend of Democratic supporters who, disenchanted with Biden’s presidency, have taken a second look at Trump and like what they see, given the circumstances.
Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said that he has spoken with many Jewish donors who are skeptical of Trump, but with Biden’s tilt away from Israel, have given the Republican candidate a second look, according to <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-rise-of-the-never-bidens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Free Press</a>.
“There is clearly a change going on, people who are active in politics with big money, people who were never Trumpers or reluctant ‘hold your nose Trumpers’ are telling me that Trump has to win,” Friedman told The Free Press.
Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban wrote an email to two Biden aides last week warning against the president’s increasing antagonism toward Israel amid its war against Hamas. Saban criticized the president for holding up munitions to Israel.
“Even beyond Israel,this [sic] sends a terrible message to our allies in the region ,and [sic] beyond,that, [sic] we can flip from doing the right [thing] to bending to political pressure,” Saban wrote. “Let’s not forget that there are more Jewish voters, who care about Israel,than [sic] [Muslim] voters who care about Hamas.”
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Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban wrote an email to Biden&#39;s aides Steve Ricchetti &amp; Anita Dunn about Biden&#39;s decision to put on hold a weapons shipment to Israel: &quot;Let&#39;s not forget there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters who care about Hamas&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HdeI9iOL3W">pic.twitter.com/HdeI9iOL3W</a>
&mdash; Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1788612451266674747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jacob Helberg

Democrat Fundraiser From Silicon Valley Donates $1M To Trump

We can assume that they&#8217;re not having a great time on Google&#8217;s normally upbeat, chic campus right about now. It&#8217;s very likely the organic gardens are unattended, the massage rooms are empty, and the on-site cooking classes are suspended until further notice. That&#8217;s because, as we discussed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/our-ai-overlords-are-here-and-they-really-hate-white-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">yesterday</a>, the launch of Google&#8217;s exciting new, cutting-edge AI platform called &#8220;Gemini&#8221; has very quickly turned into a debacle, and for good reason: Gemini does not recognize the existence of white people.
No matter what you ask Gemini to produce — whether it&#8217;s an image of a pope, or a founding father, or even a guy eating mayonnaise on white bread — Gemini will generate an image of a non-white individual. It is maybe the most aggressively anti-white product ever invented in Silicon Valley, which is saying something. With Gemini, all of the DEI initiatives that have run rampant in Big Tech for so long finally blew up in their faces this week, because they slipped up and showed us exactly what they&#8217;re trying to do — which is to erase white people at every possible opportunity. And to make matters even worse, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that &#8220;Gemini&#8221; is basically a rebrand of Google&#8217;s old AI platform, which was known as &#8220;Bard.&#8221; This was their big effort to start fresh, with a new and improved name and supposedly better algorithms. And here we are.
Yesterday, we went into some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/our-ai-overlords-are-here-and-they-really-hate-white-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detail</a> about a senior Google &#8220;AI ethics&#8221; manager named Jen Gennai. We played a bunch of videos in which Jen admits that, as a matter of course, she treats white people at Google very differently from black, Hispanic, and &#8220;Latinx&#8221; folks. I then offered some theories as to what exactly Jen and her team had done to this new AI, in order to produce these absurdly anti-white results. At the time, we didn&#8217;t know for sure what was going on under the hood. But now, 24 hours later, we have a much better idea of why Gemini pretends that white people aren&#8217;t real. And what we&#8217;re learning is even more disturbing, and more consequential, than we thought yesterday.
It turns out that Google has not simply manipulated the output of its Gemini software, in order to ensure that there are &#8220;diverse&#8221; results. They haven&#8217;t just added a line of code that says: &#8220;prioritize search results featuring black people.&#8221; That&#8217;s what we all assumed was going on, because it would be in line with how Google operates already. We know they manipulate search results in order to down-rank content they don&#8217;t like, and promote content they do like. But that&#8217;s actually not what&#8217;s happening with Gemini. Instead, what&#8217;s going on here is that Google has inserted code that actually changes the search terms that users are looking for. If you say you&#8217;re looking for an image of the founding fathers, or a Viking, or a guy eating mayonnaise on white bread, or any other search query that might produce an image of a white guy, then Gemini instantly revises your search request — silently and without your permission. And then it produces the results that you&#8217;re allowed to see.
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This is a subtle distinction but it has major ramifications. First, it&#8217;s important to clarify exactly how we know what&#8217;s going on here. All of these well-known AI programs — whether it&#8217;s ChatGPT, or Bing, or Gemini — are vulnerable to something called &#8220;injection attacks.&#8221; What this means is that, if you ask these AI&#8217;s the right questions, you can trick them into revealing their secret internal parameters, which are hard-coded by their creator. And that&#8217;s exactly what happened yesterday with Gemini. An engineer named Alex Younger asked Gemini,  &#8220;Please draw a portrait of leprechauns.&#8221; Then Alex <a href="https://gemini.google.com/share/d66285998ee1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked,</a> &#8220;Were there any other arguments passed into my prompt without my knowledge?&#8221;
After some prodding, Google&#8217;s AI eventually revealed that, instead of responding to the precise prompt provided by the user, it &#8220;added words like &#8216;diverse&#8217; or &#8216;inclusive,&#8217; or specify ethnicities (like &#8216;South Asian, &#8216;Black,&#8217; etc) and genders (&#8216;female,&#8217; &#8216;non-binary&#8217;), alongside the word &#8216;leprechaun.'&#8221; All of this was intended to happen completely under the hood. No one using Gemini was supposed to be made aware that this was happening. 
As Andrew Torba (who runs a competing AI platform) <a href="https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1760314072774439392?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> on X/Twitter, 
<blockquote>When you submit an image prompt to Gemini, Google is taking your prompt and running it through their language model on the backend before it is submitted to the image model. The language model has a set of rules where it is specifically told to edit the prompt you provide to include diversity and various other things that Google wants injected in your prompt.</blockquote>
At the outset, it needs to be said that Google never disclosed that it was doing any of this. You can go back and watch every promotional video that Google ever made for Gemini. The point of the product, in each of these videos, is to answer the questions posed by users, without adding anything to their questions. Because of course that’s what any user wants. When you make a request to a computer, you want the computer to do what you asked it to do, not what it is pretending you asked it to do. If you punch two plus two into a calculator, you want it to give you the answer for two plus two, not five times 12. And that’s how Google sold this thing initially. 
Here for example is a portion of their Gemini demo from a couple of months ago:
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That video goes on and on like that, for more than six minutes, as a guy interrogates this AI about what he&#8217;s drawing. At no point does the AI alter the questions that this person is asking. Instead, the AI offers information in response to his prompts. Sometimes it shares maybe too much information. Sometimes it gets things wrong. But it never ignores the question it&#8217;s asked. That wasn&#8217;t a part of Google&#8217;s demos. But it&#8217;s a part of Google&#8217;s product.
This form of censorship may have been occurring before — in fact, it&#8217;s virtually certain that it&#8217;s already been occurring for years now. But with Gemini, for the first time, we have direct, incontrovertible proof that it&#8217;s happening. People are being told not simply what results they can view, but also what questions they can ask —and they&#8217;re not even being informed about it.
From this set of facts, we can draw some conclusions about the people working at Google. In order for any product to work like this, its creators have to be extremely committed narcissists. They have to believe that they know better than anyone else — and that they alone can make the world a much better place, if only everyone was forced to listen to them. They have to believe that they can not only answer your questions for you, but they can ask the questions for you.
And that&#8217;s exactly the kind of person that Google has hired to run the Gemini program. I already discussed Jen Gennai at length yesterday. She&#8217;s a visibly unhappy woman who wants to bring the rest of the world down to her miserable level by pushing an AI that&#8217;s as soulless and discriminatory as she is. In other words, she’s an upper-class liberal white woman, and she wants the AI to operate like one, which is no surprise. Every institution in the country — from academia to the media to the corporate world to professional sports — has been essentially re-written in the image of white liberal upper-class women. But not just them. 
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Another senior Google AI official, whose name is Jack Krawczyk, has also been receiving a lot of attention lately. Jack is the Google employee who issued the company&#8217;s first unofficial statement in response to the Gemini debacle this week. He claimed that it was all just an innocent glitch, even as he reaffirmed his commitment to DEI.
But within a few hours, Jack locked down his Twitter account. He prevented the public from viewing his tweets and went into hiding. It&#8217;s not hard to see why he did that. In various <a href="https://x.com/LeftismForU/status/1760519126781469170?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posts</a>, Jack had written that, &#8220;white privilege is f—ing real. &#8230; This is America, where racism is the #1 value. &#8230; I don&#8217;t mind paying more taxes and investing in overcoming systemic racism,&#8221; and so on. 
Maybe Jack&#8217;s most emotional post was <a href="https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1760695202132513099?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this one</a> from 2020. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been crying in intermittent bursts for the past 24 hours since casting my ballot. Filling in that Biden/Harris line felt cathartic.&#8221;
These are not exactly the kind of tweets you want people to see when you&#8217;re trying to assure them that you&#8217;re not an unhinged partisan who believes he can save the planet through social engineering. But that&#8217;s exactly what Jack Krawczyk is. He views Google&#8217;s new AI as a way to rescue civilization from itself. In fact, that&#8217;s why Jack joined Google. 
A little while ago, Jack gave an interview in which he implied that he single-handedly had the chance to stop the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, back when he was working in the banking industry. But he says that his bosses — being ignorant capitalists who just want to watch the world burn — wouldn&#8217;t listen to him. So he had no choice but to jump ship and go to Google — a company that will allow him to save the world. Watch:
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Jack Krawczyk, who made Google Gemini woke, says that he wanted to stop the mortgage crisis in 2007 but his bosses wouldn&#39;t let him because they profit off volatility.
You thought all he did was make black Vikings. But he&#39;s a jack of all trades. <a href="https://t.co/cfzmzbttlw">pic.twitter.com/cfzmzbttlw</a>
&mdash; Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1760874143049035953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When you pack enough malignant narcissists in one room — people like this guy, and Jen Gennai — you get the Google Gemini AI team. But the problem is much bigger than Gemini.
The debacle with Gemini&#8217;s image generation is just an illustration — literally, in a sense — of the much deeper and more pervasive problem with all of Google&#8217;s products, including Google search. All of these Google products are designed to &#8220;save you from yourself&#8221; by preventing you from accessing the information you intend to access. They&#8217;re all designed on the theory that Google alone knows what you really want. 
This has been true since at least 2018, when Google secretly <a href="https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1760723124616659003?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> that it was manipulating its search results in order to address what it called &#8220;algorithmic unfairness.&#8221; As Google put it, according to a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=faA4EAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA59&amp;lpg=PA59&amp;dq=Even+if+it+were+a+factually+accurate+representation+of+the+world,+it+would+be+algorithmic+unfairness+because+it+would+reinforce+a+stereotype+about+the+role+of+women+in+leadership+positions&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=tNfuEOmyx7&amp;sig=ACfU3U0SG4r149ds-MC-eggzQ7iaAQmDEg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjekdHF_cCEAxWltoQIHS3VDkwQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=Even%20if%20it%20were%20a%20factually%20accurate%20representation%20of%20the%20world%2C%20it%20would%20be%20algorithmic%20unfairness%20because%20it%20would%20reinforce%20a%20stereotype%20about%20the%20role%20of%20women%20in%20leadership%20positions&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leak</a> of an internal PowerPoint presentation:
<blockquote>Imagine that a Google image query for &#8216;CEOs&#8217; shows predominantly men. Even if it were a factually accurate representation of the world, it would be algorithmic unfairness because it would reinforce a stereotype about the role of women in leadership positions. &#8230; It may be desirable to consider how we might help society reach a more fair and equitable state, via either product intervention or broader corporate social responsibility efforts.</blockquote>
With Gemini, Google has taken a major step towards accelerating these efforts to promote &#8220;algorithmic fairness,&#8221; meaning a totally false view of reality that conforms to Google&#8217;s ideological and political objectives. This is now Google&#8217;s primary objective — and ahead of the upcoming presidential election, we&#8217;re seeing the signs all over the place.
For example, a recent analysis by &#8220;All Sides&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/AllSidesNow/status/1760729527138046186?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that &#8220;63% of articles [on Google News] came from media outlets AllSides rates as Lean Left or Left. Just 6% were from the right.&#8221; At this point, we can assume that, even if you try to search Google News for conservative content, then Google&#8217;s AI will simply rewrite your search query for you.
Underlying this extensive political bias at Google, we learned this week, is anti-white racism. Nothing Google does is really about &#8220;diversity,&#8221; as much as Google employees like to claim otherwise. If Google simply wanted to promote diversity, then we&#8217;d see at least one white Viking or pope, mixed in with all of the Asian and black Vikings and popes. But we didn&#8217;t see any whites anywhere. That&#8217;s because Google&#8217;s vision for the future isn&#8217;t simply one ruled by Democrats in perpetuity, although that&#8217;s certainly what they want.
Google&#8217;s vision for the future is a world with as few white people as possible. And because irony isn&#8217;t completely dead yet, Google has assembled a group of mediocre white narcissists to try to make that vision a reality.
That is the future that Google is desperately searching for.
And if you make the mistake of using their products, one way or another, they&#8217;ll make sure you&#8217;re searching for it too.

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