January 18, 2025
Biden's Empty Warnings
Timothy Birdnow
Joe Biden's warning of a tech-ocracy rings most hollow; he was just fine cozying up to tech companies when they were serving his own interests. Take this for example.
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Only now, with Elon Musk and the platform formerly known as Twitter cozying up to Trump, as well as Zuckerberg's craven crawling to the Donald, Mr. Biden suddenly awakens to the perils of autocracy. Hypocrite.
If I were God and wanted to fix the nation I would destroy Silicon Valley with fire and brimstone and turn anyone who looked back at it into a pillar of salt. Get rid of SV, along with Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, and Washington and America would return to a path of decency. These places (and Chicago) have warped this nation into something wholly unrecognizable. They are the levees controlling the direction of the river of America. Break 'em and the country flows back to it's original course.
At any rate we always knew Biden was a hypocrite. This is just more proof.
Joe Biden's warning of a tech-ocracy rings most hollow; he was just fine cozying up to tech companies when they were serving his own interests. Take this for example.
FTA:
During his administration, Microsoft executives visited the White House more than 200 times, involving 82 different executives, according to visitor logs analyzed by the Foundation for Freedom Online. This level of access equals or even surpasses the influence wielded by Google during the Obama years, when the administration was criticized for being too cozy with Big Tech. The revelations suggest a troubling level of influence wielded by tech companies over Democrat administrations – Google during the Obama years and now Microsoft, particularly over critical cybersecurity policies during the Biden years.
The hundreds of meetings with White House officials not only highlight Microsoft’s proximity to the Biden administration but also reveal how the company strategically targeted the most sensitive areas of government. Roughly one-third of these meetings involved officials from the National Security Council (NSC), with Microsoft executives engaging directly with top national security figures such as Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer.
As Wired reported this week, Sullivan and the Biden White House served as Microsoft’s lackeys in brokering a $1.5 billion deal in which the company acquired a minority stake in G42, an Abu Dhabi-based AI company founded by Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates’ intelligence chief. The deal has raised fears among the U.S. intelligence community given G42’s close ties with China.
On May 12, 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith met with senior NSC advisors on the same day Biden signed an executive order addressing the SolarWinds cyberattack — a breach that exposed vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s systems and compromised federal agencies. Microsoft’s lobbying efforts during the SolarWinds fallout were designed to shield the company from scrutiny while promoting its security products to federal agencies. These products generated billions in revenue from government contracts, with national security-related agencies contributing over $12 billion to Microsoft since 2018.
The timing of several key White House meetings suggests that Microsoft leveraged the crises stemming from SolarWinds and the Exchange Server breach to expand its federal footprint. For instance, on May 24, 2021 — just days after Biden’s executive order on SolarWinds — Microsoft executives Jason Zander and David Pritchard met with Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger. Zander, responsible for Microsoft’s federal engagements, met with White House officials on at least six occasions during Biden’s term in office.
The hundreds of meetings with White House officials not only highlight Microsoft’s proximity to the Biden administration but also reveal how the company strategically targeted the most sensitive areas of government. Roughly one-third of these meetings involved officials from the National Security Council (NSC), with Microsoft executives engaging directly with top national security figures such as Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer.
As Wired reported this week, Sullivan and the Biden White House served as Microsoft’s lackeys in brokering a $1.5 billion deal in which the company acquired a minority stake in G42, an Abu Dhabi-based AI company founded by Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates’ intelligence chief. The deal has raised fears among the U.S. intelligence community given G42’s close ties with China.
On May 12, 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith met with senior NSC advisors on the same day Biden signed an executive order addressing the SolarWinds cyberattack — a breach that exposed vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s systems and compromised federal agencies. Microsoft’s lobbying efforts during the SolarWinds fallout were designed to shield the company from scrutiny while promoting its security products to federal agencies. These products generated billions in revenue from government contracts, with national security-related agencies contributing over $12 billion to Microsoft since 2018.
The timing of several key White House meetings suggests that Microsoft leveraged the crises stemming from SolarWinds and the Exchange Server breach to expand its federal footprint. For instance, on May 24, 2021 — just days after Biden’s executive order on SolarWinds — Microsoft executives Jason Zander and David Pritchard met with Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger. Zander, responsible for Microsoft’s federal engagements, met with White House officials on at least six occasions during Biden’s term in office.
Only now, with Elon Musk and the platform formerly known as Twitter cozying up to Trump, as well as Zuckerberg's craven crawling to the Donald, Mr. Biden suddenly awakens to the perils of autocracy. Hypocrite.
If I were God and wanted to fix the nation I would destroy Silicon Valley with fire and brimstone and turn anyone who looked back at it into a pillar of salt. Get rid of SV, along with Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, and Washington and America would return to a path of decency. These places (and Chicago) have warped this nation into something wholly unrecognizable. They are the levees controlling the direction of the river of America. Break 'em and the country flows back to it's original course.
At any rate we always knew Biden was a hypocrite. This is just more proof.
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